U.K. daily analyzes last year's tags and names Israel fifth on list of foreign countries most written about.
"So we're obsessed with our home country, captivated by the US and disproportionately preoccupied with Israel? Maybe," The Guardian wrote in the analysis.



By Haaretz Service
Published 04.01.11

British daily The Guardian named Israel fifth on its list of foreign sovereign countries most tagged on its website in 2010.

According to the U.K. daily, after analyzing its tag list from 2010, over 1,008 content items were written about Israel, slightly less than the 1,243 on China, 1,248 on Iraq, 1,765 on Afghanistan and 6,314 written about the United States and U.S. President Barack Obama.

The country with the most tags was expectedly the U.K. itself, with over 22,134 items.

"So we're obsessed with our home country, captivated by the US and disproportionately preoccupied with Israel? Maybe," The Guardian wrote in the analysis.

The U.K. daily also stated that over a quarter of the items tagged "Israel" were comments (258), in line with the ratio of world news.

The Guardian also noted that the countries Comoros, Sao-Tome-and-Principe, Palau and San Marino were not tagged at all in 2010, although tags exist for these countries.