Barak understood how to play Western opinion.

"We can count not only on our forces and our friends but also, in the long term, on Western public opinion," he said.

In his philosophical works he opposed Western opinion that human mind is enough for reaching absolut truth.

Thus, the innocent becomes a suspect in the eyes of a large sector of Western public opinion.

Western public opinion shall not support military action against Iran: there may be opposition from others too, perhaps.

And much of the Russian public seems to be hostile to Western opinion, at least if the voting results are any guide.

Western public opinion, swayed by the press and by left-wing politicians, was strongly anti-Polish.

His understanding of the mechanisms of Western public opinion is comparatively weak.

However, his idea that the earth is flat has been a small minority view in educated Western opinion since the 3rd century BC.

The resolution was being viewed in the region as more a vehicle to calm Western public opinion than one that would actually address the problems on the ground.