Saturday, June 06, 2015

Who do people in Saudi Arabia consider to be the enemy?

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The New York Times yesterday (see the post from the blog) published a silly article about a silly unscientific survey conducted "quietly" by an Israeli think tank of people in Saudi Arabia in which a majority considered Iran and not Israel to be the enemy.  Now this is a more serious survey conducted by the Doha-based Arab Center.  In it, 40% of respondents consider Israel to be the enemy (or--to use the language of the survey--"the states that pose the most threats to the security of the Arab homeland"), while 20% considered Iran to be the enemy (while 11% considered the US to be the enemy).