mnowsa: [quote=RayfromU
In 2008, a poll was conducted for BBC World Service and GlobeScan in 26 countries around the world. The question asked was: "Is the United States having a positive or negative influence in the world?"
On average across the 26 countries polled, 51 percent say the US is having a mostly negative influence in the world, while only 30 percent say the US is having a mostly positive influence.
And not surprisingly, In a European Union poll, Israel is viewed as the world's most dangerous nation, but of course Israel rejects the poll and considers Europeans to be anti-jewish:
Almost 60% of the Europeans believe that Israel is more dangerous than North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Israelis reacted angrily to a European Union poll in which most respondants believe that Israel poses the greatest threat to world peace....Diaspora Affairs Minister Natan Sharansky accused Europeans of being antisemitic.
It is true that some policies of the USA, because of its sheer size and influence, are not terribly favored by the rest of the world but it is also true that most of those people, who view the USA negatively, will be forced to change their opinions after they come to USA because majority of the people here are very decent and rational:)
Europe has media appointed by the state, of all things. Yes, Israel has it's faults and some are bad ones, but compared to whom their fighting against, thay are minor. If the Euro media focused some of their outrage on other's, I wonder if those opinions would begin to moderate.