Reliable Ally Polls

How do you regard Israel? (ADL, October 2007)

For each of the following countries, please say whether you consider it an ally of the United States, friendly but not an ally, unfriendly, or an enemy of the United States. (Opinion Research Corporation / CNN, Dec. 15 to Dec. 17, 2006)

Do you consider Israel an ally of the United States, friendly but not an ally, unfriendly towards the U.S., or an enemy of the United States? (CNN August 2-3, 2006)

	Israel	Lebanon	Hezbollah
Ally	49%	9%	3%
Friendly, but not an ally	33%	37	14%
Unfriendly	6%	27%	22%
Enemy	4%	15%	47%
No opinion	7%	11%	14%

Do you feel that (READ EACH ITEM) is a close ally of the U.S., is friendly but not a close ally, is not friendly but not an enemy, or is unfriendly and is an enemy of the U.S.? (Harris)

Answered "Close Ally"

Blanks where not asked
Results in ( ) indicate the former use of the words "Soviet Union" before the current use of the word "Russia."

Do you feel that (READ EACH ITEM) is a close ally of the U.S., is friendly but not a close ally, is not friendly but not an enemy, or is unfriendly and is an enemy of the U.S.? (Harris)

Answered "Not Friendly or Unfriendly"

	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
China	59	69	59	60	57	63	64	49	56	54	54	53
Pakistan									54	52	49	53
France	15	14	18	15	18	18	14	11	25	43	42	41
Colombia								41	48	43	40	41
Russia	38	51	43	45	48	54	50	33	38	37	37	36
South Korea									33	36	35	34
India								29	32	29	32	23
Taiwan		27	25	24	26	26	25	18	26	25	26	25
Chile							29	17	27	23	26	23
Germany	19	19	21	21	20	24	20	10	19	28	25	24
South Africa					33	31	26	21	24	28	24	30
Argentina	25				26	23	25	16	24	19	24	25
Brazil	16	22	20	21	22	22	23	16	22	23	22	25
Sweden									13	20	22	17
Japan	30	33	32	27	31	28	29	24	24	22	21	27
Spain							16	12	19	20	21	20
Israel	29	29	28	32	30	23	24	24	22	19	20	19	24
Greece								15	20	21	18	19
Mexico	19	14	18	20	21	24	20	14	21	20	16	20
Holland (Netherlands)							14	11	14	15	16	15
Norway								12	15	14	15	20
Italy							16	10	13	15	12	21
Canada	2	3	6	6	6	5	7	3	6	10	10	12
Australia	5	7	8	5	9	9	10	7	9	8	10	9
Great Britain	7	7	7	7	9	8	8	1	6	6	6	4
Kuwait													49
Turkey													55
Egypt													54
Saudi Arabia													57
Jordan													57
Qatar													67
Afghanistan													77
Iraq													82
Lebanon													85
Libya													88
Syria													91
Iran													97

For each of the following countries, please describe your view of the relationship between that country and the United States. First, would you say Israel is an ally, friendly, but not an ally, unfriendly but not an enemy, an enemy of the U.S. or haven't you heard enough about that to say: (Gallup)

	March 2000
An ally	40%
Friendly, not ally	20%
Unfriendly, not enemy	14%
Enemy of the U.S.	4%
Haven't heard enough to say	22%

Please tell me whether you strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, or strongly disagree with the following statement: "Israel can be counted on as a loyal U.S. ally." (ADL)

	2007	2005	2002	1998	1992
Agree	65%	71%	64%	64%	60%
Disagree	25%	18%	26%	24%	31%

I'd like you to tell me whether or not you think that country (Israel) is or not a reliable ally of the United States: (Roper Poll)

	Reliable Ally	Not a Reliable Ally
Apr.'89	44	34
Apr.'88	43	36
Feb.'87	49	29
June.'86	52	32

 

Would you say that Israel is a reliable ally or not? (WP-ABC, Feb. 12-14, 1989)

Tell me if you feel that country is a close ally of the U.S., is friendly but not a close ally, is not friendly but not an enemy, or is unfriendly and an enemy of the U.S. (Specified country, Israel): (USA Today)

Do you think the State of Israel is a close ally of the US; is friendly, but not a close ally; is not friendly, but not an enemy; or is an enemy of the United States. (Marttila & Kiley, 2/91)

Tell me whether you think that country is a reliable ally of the U.S. - one that can be trusted to cooperate with the U.S. in almost any circumstances - or not. Would you say that country is a reliable ally of the U.S. or not. (Responses indicate reliable ally)

(ADL)

(AJC)