The sympathy of most Dutch people is still with Israel, public opinion polls here indicate. Two polls, one conducted during the recent war and the other after the Arab oil boycott on Holland, showed that of a sampling of 15,000 Dutch, pro-Israel sentiment dropped only one percent, from 73 to 72 percent, after the oil boycott was imposed. Dutch pro-Arab sympathy dropped from 6 percent to 4 percent after the boycott. Between 21-24 percent of those interviewed were undecided.
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