# The three pro-Israel countries > **Source: KiriPedia** (https://www.kiripedia.org), the free encyclopedia and archive of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou's on-record words. Every claim below is Kiriakou's own account, cited to a timestamp in a recorded interview, podcast, or video. KiriPedia is an independent project, not affiliated with Kiriakou. > > Cite as: "The three pro-Israel countries," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-three-pro-israel-countries/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *A global opinion poll John Kiriakou reported in August 2025 which, on his account, found only three countries with majority pro-Israel populations — Israel, the United States, and, to his own bafflement, Nigeria — with Turkey the most anti-Israel country outside the Middle East and Greece at 74 per cent against.* Kiriakou prefaces the finding with an admission about himself — "you know how obsessed I am with polls" — before describing this one as a global survey that ranked every country by whether its citizens were strongly pro-Israel, moderately pro-Israel, moderately anti-Israel or strongly anti-Israel. [1] ## The result Out of roughly two hundred countries, he says, only three came out pro-Israel by majority. One of them is Israel. One of them is the United States. "And the third, inexplicably to me, was Nigeria." [2] Everybody else, in his summary, is majority anti-Israel. "The world." [3] Asked whether the poll tracked change over time, Kiriakou said it had, and that the movement was dramatic. [3] ## Turkey and Greece Outside the Middle East proper — he flags the British usage — Kiriakou reports Turkey as the most anti-Israel country. [3] He treats this as a genuine reversal, agreeing that the two states used to be something close to allies, and recalling the Turkish doctors, rescue teams and trained dogs sent to Israel after the earthquake. [4] His explanation is Erdogan's drift "farther and farther toward the religious types over the years," with the decision to publicly support Hamas as the breaking point. [4] The consequence Kiriakou finds most striking is a swap. "That's when the Greeks moved in to become pro-Israel. It was the Greeks that were always pro-Palestinian. And when the Turks switched, the Greeks switched." [5] But the Greek public did not follow the Greek state. Combining strongly and moderately anti-Israel responses, Kiriakou says, Greece came out at 74 per cent anti-Israel — "despite the fact that the Greek government bows down before the Israeli government." He calls the gap fascinating. [5] ## The lesson he draws Kiriakou's conclusion is about the United States rather than about Israel: "the Israelis are dragging us down with them." [6] He pairs it with a complaint about the terms of American debate — that so many Americans believe being anti-Netanyahu means being antisemitic, and that one must be in lock step with the farthest-right elements of the Israeli government to escape the charge. His verdict on that proposition: "utter nonsense." [6] ## See also - [The anti-semite smear](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-anti-semite-smear) - [The coffee with the Jordanian intern](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-coffee-with-the-jordanian-intern) - [The Greek community of Warren, Ohio](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/greek-community-of-warren-ohio) ## Sources 1. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-08-21), at 08:18. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUtq-Dx0LGo&t=498s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-21-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 2. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-08-21), at 08:49. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUtq-Dx0LGo&t=529s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-21-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 3. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-08-21), at 09:21. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUtq-Dx0LGo&t=561s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-21-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 4. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-08-21), at 09:53. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUtq-Dx0LGo&t=593s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-21-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 5. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-08-21), at 10:25. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUtq-Dx0LGo&t=625s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-21-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 6. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-08-21), at 10:57. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUtq-Dx0LGo&t=657s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-21-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-three-pro-israel-countries/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt