why do the Middle East, and arabs hate the U.S??

Question

i would like to see the u.s. take a much more even handed approach in the middle east. if they would quit supporting israel and it’s apartheid regime, and work towards setting a realistic peace process, and holding israel accountable for it’s wrongdoings, (i.e.-blowing up peoples homes, seizing land to set up settlements and so on). you see, many arabs see the palestinian problem as the biggest issue in the middle east. and the relentless support for israel,( which the americans are getting nothing back, other than spies i.e. jonathan pollard). second, the middle east as a whole, the u.s. needs to stay the hell out of and we DEFINITELY need to change our foreign policies. because of our policies, we are creating the extremism in the middle east towards the west, where before was in very small numbers, and now is growing due the american operations in the middle east. let us not be deceived, america is not liked in more than the middle east. latin america hates us, the asians are not exactly fond of us and the europeans think of us as nothing more than morons. after we learn what diplomacy is and truly implement it (i know this is utopian), we need to most certainly focus on our domestic issues. the first being education and the economy. the outsourcing of jobs to foreign lands is alarming. in most developing or third world countries, children learn 2-3 languages including the mother tongue from the time they enter kindergarden and yet, we have kids that are fierce in video games and retards in school work. this worries me a great deal. i worry about our lack of health system. our economy…well that is a long story in and of itself. i could go on and on about what else needs to be done…this is just a few things.
but as for our position currently, we cannot stay and if we leave iran will fill that vaccuum and that is no good either. so either way, this is a problem. bush treated iraq as if he is in new orleans. he was warned before hand by iraqis that this will not go well and he did not heed the warnings, and now our military is getting killed and innocent civilians are being killed at an alarming rate. i can this for sure. we are going to create even more extremists because of our actions. and i do not believe the insurgents are “terrorists”. if we were invaded by another country for absolutely no reason and did to me what the americans are doing to the iraqis, i would fight back too. just some thoughts….your take may be diff.
beace.

Answer 1

if the hatred from the muslims toward the us is ONLY because of our relation with the jewish state then why do the muslims attack EVERY RELIGION ALL OVER THE WORLD. HERES A FEW. WERE ALL OF THESE BECAUSE OF A RELATION WITH THE JEWS?

Answer 2

First I'd like to start with Arabs do not hate the US but rather it's policies. All over the Arab world the rulers are forced on them with the backing of the US, hence, the hatred of the US. When a government gets elected by the people but does not care for American interests it is quickly opposed and squeezed to death until its gone (Algeria, Palestine). In all of the foreign policies of the US in the region the people factor was always discarded or ignored, although they are the ones that pay for it all the time, and of course the American people are told the crab that they hate us because of our freedom and you wonder why Arabs hate the US.

Answer 3

US involvement in the middle east either by invading Iraq or proxy by using Israel's military causing deaths and human rights oppression to Palestinians and the recent Israel - lebanon war is certainly not helping matters.

Read Chomsky's Fateful Triangle which I'm doing right now and you will understand why the rift is so disparate. The book also explains how the American media has generally been more pro-Israel than you would imagine...

Answer 4

Most of the Arabs do not hate the American people and most of the Arabs understand the Americans more than most Americans themselves when it comes to the Israeli issue. Most Americans do not know that the 1st nation to grant the new born American government a full state recognition was an Arab state. The Arabs know that Americans stands for freedom and self determination to all man kind. Yet the Arabs know very well that due to Zionist Media propaganda and due to the most powerful lobby in Washington the Israeli lobby Americans were raised to side with Israel and any one who question the Israeli bad actions will be called all kind of names like anti Semitic. Read president carter new book to know what is Israel and what dose the Israeli do to the poor Palestinians using Americans tax money. or read what this Jewish group say about Israel. Many Zionist American Jews will answer this question only to farther mislead the Americans by not telling the truth about Israel and the Israeli lobby.

Answer 5

According to the Koran, non-Muslims must be either converted, subjugated, or killed. Those are the only options. The Koran also tells Muslims that the only time they can enter into a truce or agreement with non-Muslims is when they need time to strengthen their forces. This is why Muslim Palestinians and Israelis will never be able to live peacefully.

Muslim nations in the middle east refuse to allow the Palestinian population to re-settle in other Muslim nations because they want to keep the anti-Israel sentiment alive. Why should we hold Israel accountable for attacking military targets (yes there are civilian casualties but at least the targets are military in nature) but let Palestinians off the hook for repeatedly bombing civilian buses and non-military targets? One side is repeatedly targeting innocents. I fail to see how any rational person could side with Palestinians when they use these disgusting terrorist tactics.

Answer 6

There is a lot of truth buried in what you say but you make it sound so simple. If we were to fix our schools and economy it would mean that we toss out the illegals currently here to open up the funds and get the student to teacher ratio down. This will upset countries that count on monies sent from here to support families there (oops made an enemy). Stop sending IT jobs to India and it hurts their economy(oops enemy). Stop trying to keep North Korea from building nucs and the rest of the Asian world will be pissed (oops you guessed it). Japan counts on us for protection since they are only allowed a small military based on treaty signed to end WWII. Step out of the Middle East and let thing take their course and Israel will get hammered (oops made an enemy if there are survivors). Also make no mistake the islamic extremist's want to convert the world not just the middle east and if you don't believ that ask the French, Spanish, Africa, Russia, Fillipeans, and even parts of Canada.

Answer 7

Darlin' did you just need to vent, or do you have a point? If you have one you are not making it clear. Do not the parents of these children have some responsibilty as to the video games, and education they receive? Why blame thhe government for all the wrongs here and the rest of the world? We are the government. We vote people in we can vote people out.

Answer 8

Simple our Government is hypocrites, we say all these great things then they do the opposite and lie to us every second of everyday. Then they pat each other on the back a bunch, say what a Christian and moral nation we are then go abort a bunch of babies, and kill a bunch of innocent people in Iraq. Great Job Bush , loser impeach Bush.

Answer 9

It is important now, once such chaos descends, to remember the "Big Picture", to look at the whole region and the last century rather than mere details of the moment that are now meaningless. The tribal people of the region have, historically, used war to deal with their differences. They had not risen above their ancient differences to form a lasting union by the time the rest of the world did, on a tribal level, and were not ready as a unified civilization for the modern greedy foreigners from unified civilizations who descended upon those lands and began to plunder the oil there. Royalty and tribal elites were bribed. And, the CIA was used ruthlessly by U.S. oil interests, including those belonging to the Bush family, to deliberately destabilize the region for control and to prevent the people in the Middle East from uniting and controlling the oil themselves. The people there, betrayed by their leaders, completely failed to rise to the realities of the 20th century in time for the 21st. Now, oil production peaks in 2012 and ends in 2070. The plunder of Middle Eastern oil is in a desparate piggy-fest of who gets control of the world's remaining oil. The societies there, so long destabilized, have disintegrated into episodic chaos and heightened religiosity and fanaticism as the quality of leadership plummeted. Foreign and local elite oil interests, concerned about security for their pipelines and oil fields now that factions of freedom fighters and religious fanatics threaten to disrupt the efficient flow of oil out of the land, placed foreign troops, including those from UK and U.S., in the region to ensure enough, but only just enough, stability to get the oil out. Many U.S. soldiers there now report that all they do is guard oil fields and a flow of oil profits that go to only a few people in the world. Even the plunder has grown chaotic with an estimated 500,000 barrels of oil going "missing" every day, securing someone's power in the future as oil begins to run out. Bush marches through the region and wants to invade Iran now to lock up the pipeline routes. The U.S. pays Isreal $30,000 every year bribe for every man, woman and child, plus, has given them nuclear weapons which they have recently threatened (then denied) to use against the Iranians, in order to have an initial foothold for the plunder march through the region. The only known WMD in the region, and the Arabs are all too aware of it, are the nuclear weapons that the U.S. has given to Israel. Now, with a Democratic Congress and worldwide disgust for Bush and Cheney's lying and plundering and unspeakably irresponsible plundering of our own nation's financial security while racking up the largest national debt in the history of mankind, there may be some reasonable and certainly more decent approach that will be considered and some way to help the people of those regions who have been disarmed and are now at the mercy of militant gangs of religious fanatics, neolithic powermongers and other factions. Bush stated during the Presidental debates that "there would be NO nation building" there, though. Bush and his family supported Saddam when it suited them. They support whomever goes along with them or are most easily bribed. They support the Shiites now because they seem the most easily "managed" and exploitable or amenable to the "Big Picture". That may change from day to day, depending upon the vagaries of the chaos. The average person in the Middle East now believes that the U.S. is not to be trusted and is there not to help, except as an occasional PR ploy for the American press and voters, but to plunder.

Answer 10

Thank you for all the links, Mark! I have already looked at a few of them, and I am more than convinced. I will look at the rest as soon as I get a chance!!!!!