Which European country is said to be one of the most favorably inclined toward Israel? Which has students organizing Israel Days at major universities? Whose president made the first visit by a head of state to Israel immediately after the war with Hezbollah?
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Amazingly, that country is Poland.
Surprised? Even if a Google search on ``Poland and Israel'' generates 177 million hits, the news highlighted above is not what you find when you open your morning paper. More often, you are likely to read that a Polish member of the EU Parliament published an anti-Semitic pamphlet -- but it is seldom mentioned that the Polish president and other government representatives condemned him. Bad news travels fast -- especially if it is bad news we have been conditioned to hearing. And Poland has seldom been the beneficiary of good news.
[Israel] [Poland] [Holocaust] [Kaczynski ] [Peleg] [Kwasniewski]
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Israel may be ranked the country with the worst image abroad (as per BBC poll), but it has good friends.
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