At a time when Obama gets pretty good grades from people around the world for his statesmanship (64 percent approval overall), Jim Lobe reports that the same Pew poll shows that people in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon disapprove of Obama’s handling of the Israel/Palestine conflict by figures of 84 percent, 88 percent and 90 percent respectively. Can you do any worse? Numbers are almost as high for his Iraq steering. And interestingly, Americans disapprove of Obama’s handling of I/P by 41 to 39 percent. Hmmmm.
Note that the approval #s generally in Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon were much higher a year ago; also that Obama is faulted worldwide on his handling of Israel/Palestine by 48 percent disapproval to 31 percent approval, the largest gap in any of his numbers.
