The poll seems to be rather silly. Apparently, there were 27-ish countries to be chosen from, which left out many options. Then one might ask what exactly the question was - different wordings lead to different answers. Furthermore, there were some 2500 responses, which is hardly representative of the entire EU population.
And finally, if one where to ask 2500 people in (only) the big cities in the Netherlands if Israel is evil, you'd get a large percentage saying yes, if only because there's a lot of angry young Muslim immigrants living there, who (as recent experience shows) tend to be quite anti-semitic. This effect can be introduced into the official poll (of 2500 from some 350 milion) by mere chance - only a few people need to be anti-semitic for the results to be overplayed.
(Besides, what does "threat to world peace" mean to the people that answered the question? The Jews being a threat, or the Palestinians there being a threat, or the whole situation being a threat? If it's the latter, they'd be correct, IMHO.)
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