public opinion polls
Israelis see advancing the peace process with the Palestinians as more important than confronting the Iranian nuclear threat, according to a poll published this week. Indeed, the survey shows, the public is more interested in the Israeli government promoting better ties with moderate Arab states and the European Union than in dealing with Tehran’s nuclear program.
A broad consensus of the Israeli public still justifies Operation Protective Edge, a month after Israel's government launched it, even though uncertainty remains about how the offensive against Hamas in Gaza will turn out, according to the latest Peace Index.
In this audio clip, CPD Visiting Senior Scholar and Director of the Center for International Communication at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, Eytan Gilboa shares his thoughts on media framing and public opinion polling as a means of successful public diplomacy practice.
Americans are divided in their views of whether Israel's actions against the Palestinian group Hamas is "mostly justified" or "mostly unjustified," but they widely view Hamas' actions as mostly unjustified. Those results are similar to what Gallup measured 12 years ago during another period of heightened Israeli-Palestinian violence, and they are consistent with Americans' generally more positive views of the Israelis than of the Palestinians.
How the world views the U.S., China, and the competition between the two major rivals.
Public opinion polls are often used to gauge a country's reputation. But the public diplomacy community rarely meets with pollsters to determine how, where, and why people form their views.