AMERICA LIBERATES and ISLAM KILLS
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Posted on 02/10/2007 4:48:09 PM PST by Posting
Poll shows Arabs dislike Bush
New poll shows Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah most popular leader among Arabs. US President Bush, on the other hand, at bottom of list
Reuters Published: 02.09.07, 21:16 / Israel News
A new poll on Thursday underscored deep Arab unhappiness with the United States but said the negative image could be repaired if Washington brokered a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace agreement.
The survey of 3,850 people in six Arab countries rated President George W. Bush as the most disliked world leader, while the United States and Israel were viewed as significantly greater threats than Iran .
Sixty-seven percent of the respondents said the United States could improve its image by brokering a comprehensive Middle East peace agreement.
A smaller number -- 33 percent -- said this image change could happen if Washington withdrew its troops from Iraq.
The results show the Arab-Israeli conflict "remains the central prism through which people are evaluating the United States", even when the international focus is on the Iraq war and nuclear crisis with Iran, said Shibley Telhami of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
Major powers recently backed a US push to revive Israeli-Palestinian talks, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice planning to travel to the region next week.
Based on face-to-face interviews conducted for the Saban Center by the Zogby International polling firm last November and December, attitudes were surveyed in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and United Arab Emirates.
Respondents were asked to identify which world leader outside of their own country they disliked most.
Bush was named by 38 percent, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon by 11 percent, current Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert by 7 percent and British Prime Minister Tony Blair by 3 percent.
Nasrallah admired
The most admired leader was Hassan Nasrallah of Hizbullah , the Iranian-backed Islamic militant group in Lebanon, with 14 percent.
French President Jacques Chirac followed with 8 percent, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with 4 percent and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with 3 percent.
Hizbullah, Ahmadinejad and Chavez are all adversaries of the United States, while Chirac was at odds with Washington in the run-up to the Iraq war.
Seventy-nine percent of the respondents cited Israel as their biggest threat, while the United States was named by 74 percent. Iran, which Washington considers a major threat because of its nuclear ambitions, was named by only 6 percent of the Arabs surveyed.
Although Bush and some US politicians insist American troops cannot now be withdrawn from Iraq without leaving worse chaos behind, 44 percent of the Arabs polled said Iraqis will find a way to bridge their differences and 33 percent said a US withdrawal would have no effect on the current situation.
Only 24 percent of the respondents predicted an American withdrawal would cause the Iraqi civil war to expand rapidly.
Yes, along with all the world's finest dictators, communists, criminals and other oppressive governments, they do not like Bush....or America. We are a free country that is the zenith of the free world.
The pollsters should ask the guy on the sreet if he likes Arabs.
"Comprehensive Middle East peace agreement" translates to the complete destruction of Israel, obviously.
Memo to the President: Islamic "hearts and minds" will not and cannot be won.
AMERICA LIBERATES and ISLAM KILLS
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There's the border: let all Arabs depart.
I definitely do NOT trust this poll. I am sure that in countries where free expression of opinions are not encourage, one cannot rely on some one giving an honest response.
Hey if the Aaaaaarabs hate him he must be doing something right !!!
And study shows that the Sun rises in the East every day.
Who gives a shiite what the Arabs on the street think of America or the U.S. president?
LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL!
Wait a minute!!!! Am I supposed to believe that Democrats are ARABS!!??
LOL!!!
9th or 10th post of this
You cannot make Arabs happy. Their act is to be upset all the time. They will not be happy until the sea of glass appears in the middle east. No amount of brokerage will get the job done. Israel will not agree to a mass beheading, so USA State Dept. get over sitting down and negotiating a peace with nutcases. Oil your nuclear weapons, the time is short.
5.56mm
That means we are doing something right.
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