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2012-10-22 | ||||||
A poll of Egyptians conducted last month shows that they have increasingly positive views of Iran, believe that both Iran and Egypt should obtain nuclear weapons, and still trust their own military more than any other institution in Egypt. The poll of 812 Egyptians, half of them women, was conducted in a series of in-person interviews by the firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner and sponsored by the Israel Project, a pro-Israel advocacy organization with offices in Washington and Jerusalem. According to the poll, Iran is viewed favorably in Egypt, with 65 percent of those surveyed expressing support of the decision to renew Egypt-Iran relations and 61 percent expressing support of the Iranian nuclear project, versus 41 percent in August 2009. Sixty-two percent of those polled agreed that "Iran and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, are friends of Egypt," though 68 percent held unfavorable views of Shiite Muslims.
"Very scary to people opposed to proliferation of nuclear weapons, let alone to unstable countries in the world's most turbulent part of the world, is the 87 percent who want Egypt to build nuclear weapons," he said. "Morsy's dangerous embrace of Iran is leading a surprising shift in favor support for Tehran, which has for decades been seen by Egyptians as their top threat, as well as for their work on nuclear weapons."
The poll found that 64 percent of Egyptians still feel warmly about the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which ran Egypt in the interim period before Morsy was elected, and 81 percent approve of the job they are doing. Forty-nine percent of Egyptians polled felt warmly about Morsi, and 43 percent felt warmly about the Muslim Brotherhood. Forty percent felt warmly about the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, but only 11 percent felt warmly about the Salafist Nour Party, a hard-line Islamist party that fared well in the parliamentary elections. American politicians fared poorly in the poll, but among them Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the most popular at 25 percent favorability. President Barack Obama scored 16 percent and Republican nominee Mitt Romney only 8 percent, although only half of Egyptians polled knew who Romney was. (Ahmadinejad's favorability rating? Forty-three percent.) Asked, "Do you think that President Barack Obama is more on the side of Arabs or more on the side of Israel?," 68 percent of Egyptians said Israel, and 60 percent said that Obama's presidency had been "a negative thing" for the Arab world. | ||||||
Posted by:Steve White |
#5 Further down in the Rant roll, Steve ponders why Britain wants to retain nuclear weapons. At this rate Andorra will get in line. They're rioting in Africa. they're starving in Spain. There's hurricanes in Florida and Texas needs rain. The whole world is festering with unhappy souls. the french hate The Germans. the Germans hate the Poles. Italians hate Yugoslavs. South Africans hate the Dutch and I don't like anybody very much! But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud for man's been endowed with a mushroom shaped cloud. And we know for certain that some lovely day someone will set the spark off and we will all be blown away. They're rioting in Africa. there's strife in Iran. What nature doesn't do to us will be done by our fellow man. - " The Merry Minuet " |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-10-22 17:34 |
#4 Nuclear armed Iran, Pakistain, North Korea, and Egypt--not a comforting thought. The ultimate maniac suicide bombers. If they get POd over some cheap and tawdry internet video, can we expect them to unleash nuclear weapons on the West while we are trying to jail the guy who made the video? |
Posted by: JohnQC 2012-10-22 16:45 |
#3 Egyptians ... want nuclear weapons On top of Aswan dam OK for delivery? |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-10-22 15:01 |
#2 Don't forget _who_ put Morsi into power. Hint: Four years age got a job at the White House. |
Posted by: JFM 2012-10-22 04:20 |
#1 Maybe we will see a Nazi-Soviet Pact right here in the 21st Century. Egypt and Iran can probably figure out something that economically benefits both sides, they can both use their power to stop the actual fighting and just split up Syria and Lebanon. Hell, Morsi and Ahmadinejad will probably get a Nobel Prize out of it. |
Posted by: Penguin 2012-10-22 00:56 |