Wednesday, June 14, 2006
TigerHawk has a very interesting post taking a much closer look at the Pew poll referred to in the post below (see: French Opinion Toward Israel on Upswing): Annotating the latest Pew Global Attitudes Project survey
Notable quote:
...The intersection of opinions in Jordan and Egypt, two countries that have made peace with Israel in form even if not in attitude, is perhaps the most troubling data in the survey. In both countries around 45% of the population actually favor Iran acquiring nuclear weapons, and sizable majorities (65% and 61%, respectively) believe that Iran would use those weapons to attack Israel. Pew does not give us the data, but it is virtually certain that a significant percentage of the population in both Jordan and Egypt want Iran to get nuclear weapons so that it will attack Israel. Should we be surprised that the New York Times decided not to report this fairly newsworthy data? No, but we should be disappointed...
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