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Originally Posted by DJ Happy
- Unconditional support for Israel at the expense of its Arab neighbours
- US troops and bases on Arab soil, such as Saudi and Bahrain (especially Saudi though)
- Support for "despotic and tyrannical regimes that are abusing their power and abandoning their responsibilities" (ie, the Sauds)
Basically, they don't like the influence that the US has in the region.
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- support for Israel is mainly because it's Arab neighbours want to destroy it. In other words: they're angry they're too weak to exterminate the Jews there.
- US troops were *invited* to come, after Iraq threatened to attack SA. Most troops are now gone from SA, and are in Iraq instead. As long as Iraq's neighbors don't want to send any troops themselves, they should STFU.
- support for any regime that is relatively friendly to the US, given the oil in the area. If a democratic, US-friendly oil-rich country were to excist in the middle-east, they'd support that. Again, they're blaming the US for their own problems.
I'd say the essence of the Arabs' hatred is that they're weak, and they want to become powerful, just like the west. However, instead of actually building up their power (like most of Asia did), they're more interested in destroying the west, to drag them down to their level.