ISRAEL and US: Biggest Threats to World Peace, Europeans Say

The European Commission sponsored a poll conducted by Taylor Nelson Sofres/ EOS Gallup Europe, between 8 and 16 of October 2003, asking European citizens, on "the reconstruction of Iraq, the conflict in the Middle East and world peace".

According to the survey, Europeans believe the United States contributes the MOST to world instability along with Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and North Korea. Read HERE for more.....

Excerpts from article by Andrew Beatty in Euobserver.com

Over half of Europeans think that Israel now presents the biggest threat to world peace.

According to Spanish daily El Pais, a massive 59 percent of Europeans said they believed that Israel is the biggest obstacle to world peace

The European Commission is coming under fire for failing to publish the results which revealed the extent of mistrust of Israel and the United States in Europe.

A Commission spokesperson today (30 October) denied that the decision to withhold some of the results until next Monday was politically motivated, adding that some of the results not yet published are still "unstable".He did, however, add that a decision was made to publish a preview of the questions pertaining to the reconstruction of Iraq, to coincide with the Iraqi donors conference in Madrid, which took place at the end of last week. This admission has raised questions about whether the Commission sought to suppress the results which would have came at a particularly sensitive moment.

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