Israel 'least popular' nation

[Tarek1990]

BBC survey: Israel 'least popular' nation

By The Associated Press
LONDON - Israel, Iran and the United States are the countries with the most negative image in a globe-spanning survey of attitudes toward 12 major nations. Canada and Japan came out best in the poll, released today.

The survey for the British Broadcasting Corp.'s World Service asked more than 28,000 people to rate 12 countries - Britain, Canada, China, France, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, North Korea, Russia, the U.S. and Venezuela - as having a positive or negative influence on the world.

Israel was viewed negatively by 56 percent of respondents and positively by 17 percent; for Iran, the figures were 54 percent and 18 percent. The United States had the third-highest negative ranking, with 51 percent citing it as a bad influence and 30 percent as a good one. Next was North Korea, which was viewed negatively by 48 percent and positively by 19 percent.

Canada had the most positive rating in the survey of 28,389 people in 27 countries, with 54 percent viewing it positively and 14 percent negatively. It was followed by Japan and France.

Respondents were also asked their views of the 25-member European Union; 53 percent saw it as positive and 19 percent as negative.

Britain, China and India were viewed more positively than negatively, while Russia had more negative than positive responses. It appears that people around the world tend to look negatively on countries whose profile is marked by the pursuit of military power, said Steven Kull, director of the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes, which conducted the research along with pollster GlobeScan.

Countries that relate to the world primarily through soft power, like France and Japan and the EU in general, tend to be viewed positively, he added.

[El-Meghwar]

of course it's true,Israel is a terrorist country and its obvious that the majority of human beings hate it .
Israel is one of the biggest disasters that ever happened in the universe !

and i think if the world will end someday,i am sure that Israel will have a hand in it .

Israel = عزرائيل

[Tawa]

Originally Posted by El-Meghwar

Israel = عزرائيل

Just To Tell You Know, El-Meghwar:

Israel = نصرالله

Israel Means The Victory Of God In Hebrew... And I Heared It On TV During The July War...

I Searched For It Now... And I Got:
The name Israel is the Hebrew word YISRAEL and means "God prevails". When we become inhabitants of Spiritual Jerusalem and Spiritual Israel we come into the place where God prevails and teaches us of double peace.

What A Coincidence

[Grim]

Originally Posted by Tawa

[FONT=Comic Sans MS][B]Just To Tell You Know, El-Meghwar:

Israel = نصرالله

I guess it's شعب الله المختار but I still believe that this land belongs to the Palestinians and the zionist movment must be deleted from this world.

[flamenguita]

Of course the killing machine nation will be the least popular, eno people didn't all turn to devils as i see and they didn't start voting for satan for sure. Guess who is the second " least popular nation" in my opinion?

[Tawa]

Originally Posted by Ibn_AWA

I guess it's شعب الله المختار but I still believe that this land belongs to the Palestinians and the zionist movment must be deleted from this world.

The meaning of Israel

Origin: Biblical

Meaning: Who prevails with God

Origin: Hebrew

Meaning: May God prevail. He struggles with God. God perseveres; contends. In the bible when Jacob was in his nineties as a token of blessing God changed his name to Israel.

This Is The Meaning Of Israel... But They Think That They Are God's Chosen People... It's Not The Definition Of The Word Israel...
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