Exclusive: European support for Palestinians 'crashes'

New public opinion surveys conducted among "opinion elites" in Europe show that support
for the Palestinians has fallen precipitously, according to a leading international pollster,
Stan Greenberg, who has been briefing Israeli leaders on his findings in the past few days.
There has not necessarily been "a rush to Israel" but there has been a "crash" in backing
for the Palestinians, he noted.

Greenberg, a key pollster for president Clinton who also worked with former Israeli prime
minister Ehud Barak, conducted the surveys for the Israel Project, a US-based non-profit
organization devoted to educating the press and the public about Israel.

Greenberg told The Jerusalem Post that the shifts in attitudes reflected in the surveys
were so dramatic that he "redid" some of the polls to ensure there had been no error.

He singled out France as the country where attitudes had changed most dramatically.
Three years ago, 60 percent of French respondents said they took a side in the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict, and of that 60%, four out of five backed the Palestinians. Today, by contrast, 60% of French respondents did not take a side in the conflict, and support for
the Palestinians had dropped by half among those who did express a preference.

Greenberg said the figures were still being finalized, and so did not go into further details.
But shifts such as these, he said, represented "an incredible pace of change," with
significant consequences.

Until recently, he said, "It was hard for Israel to communicate its interests in its own
name" in Europe. "It was hard for Israel to be heard. Nowadays, it is heard on its own
interests, such as Iran and Hamas." Much of the "old sense of hostility," had dissipated,
he said.

At the root of the change, said Greenberg, was a fundamental remaking in Europe of
the "framework" through which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is viewed.

Three years ago, he said, the conflict was perceived "in a post-colonial framework."

There was a sense "that Europe could cancel out its own colonial history by taking
the 'right' side" - the Palestinian side. Yasser Arafat was viewed as "an anti-colonial,
liberation leader." The US was seen as a global imperial power, added Greenberg, and the
fact that it was backing Israel only added to the "instinctive" sense of the Palestinians as
victims.

France, with the largest Muslim population - moreover an entirely Arab Muslim population -
with the direct experience of Algeria and the most anti-US positions, was most prey to
this mindset.

Today, by contrast, the Europeans "are focused on fundamentalist Islam and its impact
on them," he said. The Europeans were now asking themselves "who is the moderate in
this conflict, and who is the extremist? And suddenly it is the Palestinians who may be
the extremists, or who are allied with extremists who threaten Europe's own society."

An increasing proportion of Europeans are concluding that "maybe the Palestinians are
not the colonialist victims" after all.

Furthermore, the pollster said, the question of which side held "absolute,"
uncompromising positions had also shifted - to Israel's benefit. The sea-change in
attitudes, he said, had been accelerated by the fact that former prime minister Ariel
Sharon, who had been widely regarded as an ideological "absolutist," had surprised
Europe with his disengagement initiative. And at about the same time, the Palestinians
had chosen the "absolutists" of Hamas as their leadership.

An opinion poll for the Israel Project among "opinion elites" in the US released last month
found that 80% believed that US should not fund the Palestinian Authority until its Hamas-
led government renounced violence, recognized Israel and ended terrorism, 93% said
Palestinian leaders must end the culture of hate that encourages children to become
suicide bombers and 78% had a favorable view of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert's "realignment" plan. Asked if they considered themselves supporters of Israel or
supporters of the Palestinians, 58% in that survey said they backed Israel, while 10% said
they supported the Palestinians. Another 33% said they supported neither side, were
undecided or didn't know.

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האירופאים מתחילים להבין שהערבים - כולל הפלסטינאים - הם עם דפוק בזכות עצמו, ולא
בגלל שהיו קרבנות של האימפריאליזם והקולוניאליזם האירופי.
הסיבות למצבם הגרוע של המוני ערבים בפרט, ומוסלמים בכלל, טמונות בתרבות הנחשלת שלהם,
ובמנהיגים המושחתים והאכזרים השולטים בהמונים באגרוף ברזל. השחרור הערבי מוסלמי צריך
להיות מעצמם, מתרבותם וממנהיגיהם, ולא מכוחות מערביים זרים. האירופאים מתחילים להבין שהכסף הרב שהן שפכו כסיוע להמונים הערבים, הלך לכיסיהם של המנהיגים ומקורביהם, ולצבירת נשק.
הפלישה המוסלמית לתוך ארצות אירופה ומשמעותה המסכנת סייעו לתהליך התפכחות זה.

מדינות ערב זכו לפריחה תרבותית וכלכלית בזמן שהיהודים גרו בתוכם.

מדובר על מצרים, תורכיה, ספרד ומה שלא ציינתי.

מזמן שגורשו היהודים משם, הלכה הברכה מאותו המקום.

האגדה מספרת ששליט טורקיה כתב מכתב תודה למלך ספרד ב 1492 לאחר שקלט חלק ממגורשי ספרד, והודה לו על האוצר שהביא לפתחו.

גם היום, המדינות המצליחות ביותר (וארה"ב בראשן) מאכלסות את מספר היהודים הרב ביותר. או לחילופין, יש קשר ברור בין מידת הצלחתה של מדינה לבין מספר היהודים הגרים בה.

חתימתכם הוסרה כיוון שלא עמדה בחוקי האתר. לפרטים נוספים לחצו כאן. תוכלו לקבל עזרה להתאמת החתימה לחוקים בפורום חתימות וצלמיות.

חלק ממנו שמתהדר בנוצות של נאורות, נוטה ללכת באדיקות בעקבות מה שנחשב העלית האירופאית.

כבר לא יהיה לו מאין ...

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