did American people hate Arabs? if yes why?
410892
I was born in nothern Iraq and nobody at my school laughs at me or hates me, in fact i'm probably the funniest guy at my school. But yeah most people just think that if you are middle eastern then you are a terrorist. ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE!!!
1133788
The USA supported the creation of Israel out of sympathy for Jewish suffering during the Holocaust. As a result, when Arab Nations attacked Israel we had no choice but to support Israel. Because we support Israel the Arab people naturally don't like us-we stole their land,(Israel). From then on we Americans have been sold on the notion that Israel is our only true friend in the Middle East and we must support them. The fact is, if Israel didn't exist we wouldn't be in the mess we are today. We are one of the biggest oil consumers in the world. Why would you hate your best customer? Israel never should have been created.... BUT... now that it does... we need to kick the Muslim world's butt until they arrive in the 21st century and forget that stupid notion about the 72 Virgins. When that happens economic stability will arrive and so will peace. Religion is the enemy.\nJD
63601
arabs blow up women and children and the Israelis retaliate.\n\nthese are hardly crimes, if Mexico murdered 1/10th the number of people in the USA that the arabs have in Israel it is highly likely that Mexico would cease to exist.\n\nremember Afghanistan, their leaders harbored a terrorist but didn't actively participate in bin Laden's murderous rampage and the USA blew most of them to smithereens.\n\nunfortunately for the arabs, their corrupt leaders will squander all the oil wealth and the arabs will be left in the stone age while the rest of the world has left them in the dust.  How to combat this?  Think logically, train your children not to hate, and adopt Christian values (i.e. do not murder, do not pray to false idols, etc.)
319728
The Arab world See's the US as the big evil and Israel as the little evil.  The US has favorable foreign policy to Israel over the Arab world.  People say that they are our puppets.
86072
well,,to be honest ,,i find this question absurd,,we can never ask if a race is good or bad,,,generalizations are sth silly and bad,,,one have to be unbaised,,most Arabs would have probaly asked the same question abput Americans,,,whcih,,i believ is absurd,,u can never judge a himan being never,,before actually dealing with him /her,,,not all Arabs are good,,not all french people are good,,not all americans are good,,this is what is basically meant by diversification,,and personla trends,,,\nAs for Arabs,,I beleive they do have wonderful traits,,,I lived with them and i know how loving and respectful they can be
415193
Depends... if you're talking about America the country and it's foreign policy... If that is what you hate.. no. I despise all of the nation states between Turkey and the Japan, but I'm not racist because I have friends from many of those counries and like them.  But, if it means to hate Americans themselves, then you hate ALL races. Everyone has the potential to be an American. But, you can't move to Italy and be Italian. Or France to be French. And you certainly can't Indian or Arabic unless you were born that way. Americans are bound by ethnicity. \n\nYou're stupid to be Anti-American. The world without America would be rubble. We KEEP the peace.
990186
The responses u have received are a good indicator of how insensitive Americans are or whoever ur respondents are... most probably racist jews...  even if u were factually inaccurate how would the Americans like to be under foreign occupation or have their people killed by an occupation force... How can America absolve itself of the genocide in Palestine by saying our allies whom we back are doing this!!\n\nUS may militarily dominate the world but it is certainly the most hated and for good reason too!
230578
The USA doesnt dislike Muslims and Arabs. They dislike getting shot at and blown up. We have been giving aid to many Muslim countries such as Palestine and Pakistan. We are allies with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and UAE.
250485
i'm from middle east so i can answer you\nback in 1948 the u.s gov and england encourage the zionist to occupy palestin\nand what they done to my home land iraq by occuping it in 2003 , i was 12 then so what i saw i think if you are 50 year old couldn't see it \nbut you should know that the arabs don't hate u.s citizens
492428
You guys need to talk to a history major! For goodness sake the US feels guilty because of the Holocaust. But no, Israel did not take land from the Palestinians, Israel has existed longer for crying out loud. The Palestinians were a little bit more radical that the Jordanians so they were kicked out and they wanted land so they laid claim to land that belonged to Israel. And as an American I don't hate Muslims, what I hate is someone who claims they have the right to kill in the name of a religion at all. If you're going to kill just say its because you're a bad person who enjoys the pain of others, not because you're religion told you so. The Bible, the Koran, the books that the Jewish, Buddhist, and what a lot of the other major religions say is to not kill, so stop hijacking religions and lets get to the frigging point. Every religion historically has been used by someone, the Muslims aren't to blame, the murderers of the world are.
357570
Arabs? Are you kidding??\nOh man, most Americans think that Russians, Germans,French, Pollacks, Turks, Vietnamese,Chinease, Japs,Muslims, Nerds,Blacks, Hespanics, Gays,Lesbians, Fat guys, Bald guys , Fat bald guys or any other combination of those belong to a sub-human race, so why would arabs, or any other race be an exception????\nIt is a part of our thought that is so deeply embeded in our culture that we don`t even realise that it exists!That\nothers must be savages, or even animals, so that we can be rightious when we hunt them, and we're always rightious,and dare you prove the contrary!(got any nukes? no?shut up then) So go hide in a bush, we're comming to eat ya :)
192754
I'm sure not ALL Arabs hate Israel.  But I believe the ones who do really don't have a choice.  It's inbred in them to hate because their culture has for so long ... they don't know any different.
304878
Read the Old Testament.  It will give you a very good account as to why these two nations hate each other.  Exodus and Numbers are particularly good books to read.\n\nThe Arabs believe their land was stolen by the people of Moses, and the Israel Nation belives God gave them that land for their inheritance.
757190
Just in case you are not fluent in the history, the Arabs have always had a hatred for Jews. Clear back in Biblical times they were taken prisoners and taken to the conquerors country as slaves... Babylonia, Egypt, a couple others I can't recall. The US backs Israel, making us also get on the hate list... but there are apparently other countries on the list also..Mostly of the western civilization.. not restricted to it however.. they are now taking over (or attempting to) countries and governments..
946520
It's interesting, because I don't know that there are "countries" that hate us.  There may be a country's leader that "hates" america (Hugo Chavez of Venezuela certainly didn't like American capitalism, but I wouldn't say Venezuelans hate America) -- such as Fidel Castro of Cuba, probably the leaders of the Palestinian Authority, Qadafi of Libya (up until recently), some hardline Chinese communist leaders; and there may be some countries in which a majority of the people don't have a favorable image of America (I'd include North Korea, Iran, and, to a lesser extent, France), but I don't think there are countries that "hate" us, perhaps the way it was during the cold war.\n\nMost enemies of the U.S. today would be categorized into two camps -- rogue groups of non-nation states (like al Qaeda) and economic "enemies" who simply want to displace America as the great economic superpower (like China, India, and, to a lesser extent, the E.U.)  Both must be considered.
407736
I can't explain everyone else's reactions to Arabic and Muslim people, but I for one strive to treat Arabs no differently than anyone else.\n\nYou have only to look at the U.S.'s continued history of racial tension (and that goes BOTH ways, folks--whites prejudiced against blacks and BLACKS prejudiced against whites... it happens!) to realize that, sadly, not everyone feels the same.
991598
Interesting.  No one yet said that Arabs are merely anti-semitic.  They are Semites themselves but that had never stopped anyone.  \nHow long it took us and what we had to fight and how we had to fight, to finally establish that there was a people, my parents among them, the Palestinians who lived where Israel was formed.  Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived in relative peace for thousands of years in Palestine, before Israel was formed.  Israel and its lovers choose to either spend a lot of time denying that there was a Palestinian people, or saying that no one kicked those Palestinians out of there.  \nYes, at the end of WWII, the Jews felt that they needed a country where they would be safe.  The allies riddled with guilt about the holocaust, contemplated a few options, then decided on Palestine.  Here are a few facts, to compel the myths you hear to dispute the original injustice committed against the Palestinians.  1. There was a country called Palestine for thousands of years in what is now Israel.  2. There was a nation there, and hundred of thousands of Palestinians.  It was not as the zionists (creators of Israel) put it, "a land without people for a people without land."  3. Nor were the Palestinians a bunch of nomad Arabs.  They are Arabs, they are Palestinian Arabs.  Just like the Jordanians, the Syrians, etc... their being Arab does not strip them of their particular Arab nationality.  They were rooted in Palestine, many in urban settings, even if a few Bedouins by the West Bank, crossed over often in what is now Jordan.  4. Nor did the Palestinians either sell their property to the thousands of Jews flocking into Palestine, nor did they run off.  5. The zionists waged a meticulously planned unforeseen war with massacres against the Palestinian people to evict them from Palestine.  The word terrorist was first used by the British for those zionists groups that went around killing Palestinians throughout Palestine.  \nAnd the Jews kept coming from everywhere, and the Palestinians kept getting forced out.  The West then pressured the Zionists to stop and the Zionists offered half of Palestine to the Palestinians.  How grand.  The Palestinians refused.  To this day, the now baptized Israelis want more land with less Arabs on it.  Palestinians for the large part want what is justifiably theirs.  The Palestinian Diaspora has been very successful as individuals wherever they went.  Palestinians were a highly educated group of people.  They knew, however, that pressing for their identity and speaking for their nation, had to become the sole purpose of their life, and would inconvience their host nations.  So, quite a few of them, resigned themselves to living quietly as residents, eventually, citizens of their host country.  Israel was there to stay, said the Western World, never mind how it was built.  Israel would be supported blindly and generously by the new superpower, America (true?  why?  Not to be discussed here).  \nBut a lot of Palestinians had remained in Palestine.  And no one counted on the Palestinians who stayed to actually have the perseverence and patriotic dedication they showed.  And a lot of Palestinians who did take other nationalities still spoke up for Palestine at the cost of putting up with discrmination.  \nInitially, the world stood with them, few countries recognized Israel.  The Zionists attributed it to anti-semitism, shaming the countries that condemned Israel.  It so happens, the Jews did wrong in Palestine but there was and had been horrific anti-semitism for the Jews to play upon.  Gradually, since 1948, and with a lot of growing influence over the world, the Zionists saw that the majority of the world recognizes the right of Israel to exist.  \nIn the meantime, the Palestinians who either remained in Palestine or lived scattered in refugee camps got poorer and poorer.  Their resources to fight were being destroyed.  Gradually, they turned to brutal violence to be heard.  Gradu