Israel's standing not good, says almost half the nation
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March 30, 2010, Tuesday
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NEARLY one out of every two Israelis thinks the country's international standing is poor following Israel's most serious crisis with the United States in decades, according to a poll published yesterday on the eve of the Passover holiday.
As Jews around the world were making last-minute preparations for the spring festival - which marks the biblical story of the Hebrews' exodus from Egypt - a poll in the Maariv daily showed increasing concern following the open rift between the governments of the world's two largest Jewish centers.
The US and Israel are at odds over Israeli construction in east Jerusalem, the section of the holy city claimed by the Palestinians. The US is demanding that Israel halt building to facilitate peace talks. Israel says it can build anywhere in the city.
Asked how they would define Israel's international standing, only 14 percent of Israelis said it was good, 37 percent called it reasonable and more than 48 percent called it bad. The TNS/Teleseker survey questioned 500 people.
Israel has been under fire internationally since last winter's Gaza war, with a United Nations commission accusing it of war crimes. Israel's relations with allies such as Turkey, Britain and Australia have also faltered.
Relations with the US administration have reached such a low point, said an editorial in the daily Haaretz, that Washington has demanded written Israeli commitments, since "the spoken word has no meaning."
The weeklong holiday remembers the biblical story of when God killed the first-born of Egypt after the pharaoh refused to release the children of Israel from bondage, but "passed over" the houses of the Hebrews. The pharaoh gave in and let the Hebrews go.
As Jews around the world were making last-minute preparations for the spring festival - which marks the biblical story of the Hebrews' exodus from Egypt - a poll in the Maariv daily showed increasing concern following the open rift between the governments of the world's two largest Jewish centers.
The US and Israel are at odds over Israeli construction in east Jerusalem, the section of the holy city claimed by the Palestinians. The US is demanding that Israel halt building to facilitate peace talks. Israel says it can build anywhere in the city.
Asked how they would define Israel's international standing, only 14 percent of Israelis said it was good, 37 percent called it reasonable and more than 48 percent called it bad. The TNS/Teleseker survey questioned 500 people.
Israel has been under fire internationally since last winter's Gaza war, with a United Nations commission accusing it of war crimes. Israel's relations with allies such as Turkey, Britain and Australia have also faltered.
Relations with the US administration have reached such a low point, said an editorial in the daily Haaretz, that Washington has demanded written Israeli commitments, since "the spoken word has no meaning."
The weeklong holiday remembers the biblical story of when God killed the first-born of Egypt after the pharaoh refused to release the children of Israel from bondage, but "passed over" the houses of the Hebrews. The pharaoh gave in and let the Hebrews go.
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