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August 26, 2014 Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel During the Six Day War of 1967, polls showed that Americans favored the Israelis over the Arabs by overwhelming margins. In Europe, support for Israel ran even higher. Fast forward 40 years and Israel has become perhaps the most reviled country in the world. Except for Americans, almost all of the rest of the world treats Israel as a pariah. What caused this remarkable turnabout? Joshua Muravchik traces the process by which material pressures and intellectual fashions reshaped world opinion of Israel.