U.S. to Israel: We like you! We really, really, like you!

The Gallup Organization polled Americans on which countries they like and dislike, and which most greatly affect U.S. interests directly. Israel scored the big one, being declared both favorable and a “vital friend.”

WASHINGTON – A Gallup poll surveying US opinion on geopolitics singles out Israel as only foreign nation Americans feel favorably toward and also say that what happens there is vitally important to the US.

Americans remain most favorable towards English-speaking countries – Canada (92 percent view it as mostly favorable), Australia (89 percent) and Great Britain (also 89 percent). Additional countries the majority of Americans view favorably are Japan (82), India (69), Israel (63), Mexico (60), Egypt (60), Russia (53) percent and Jordan (51).

Among the least favorable? Look at who’s number four.

The country viewed as least-favorable by Americans is Iran (9 percent), followed by North Korea (12), Iraq (15), Palestinian Authority (16), Syria (21), Afghanistan (23), Cuba (25), Pakistan (28), Saudi Arabia (35), Venezuela (41) and China (48).

Can we have a Nelson here please?

And here’s where Israel scores the lone high value:

The five countries deemed by Americans as the world’s ‘hot spots’ – nations that a majority of Americans view unfavorably and say that what happens in each is “vitally important” to US interests – are Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, and China.

Countries viewed as ‘less relevant enemies’ – unfavorable but not important – are Pakistan (47 percent), Syria (42), Cuba (31) and Venezuela (29).

Of the countries viewed both favorably and important, only Israel was named, with 55 percent of Americans deeming it a ‘vital friend.’

Countries viewed as ‘low-pertinence friends’, favorable but unimportant, are Great Britain (43 percent), Mexico (42), Japan (40), Russia (40), Canada (36) and India (28).

That makes sense. Britain is important to us, but unless it’s taken over by a megalomaniac madman, nothing that happens inside the country will directly affect us. I think that what happens in India is a lot more important than the Gallup respondents do, but they didn’t ask me.

I think this poll is extremely heartening, especially now when so many are trying to delegitimize Israel. And I love that Americans can see through the bullshit they get from the media every day. Israel is training our boys in urban warfare. Israel is helping us defeat the enemy in Iraq. Israel constantly shares information with America on every enemy, from the Soviet Union (the nation that sold the Arab armies advaned weaponry in their vain attempts to defeat Israel) to today’s Islamic terrorists. And Israel will be there if the U.S. needs aid and cover for Iran.

The percentages on that poll also indicate that it is neither the “Jewish lobby” nor the evangelicals in America who are supporting Israel. It’s the majority of the nation. Unless someone out there would like to prove to me that Jews and evangelicals make up 63% of this nation.