The Blog | James Zogby: Revealing the Obvious | The Huffington Post
Sometimes polling reveals the obvious. And sometimes the obvious needs to be revealed.

Our most recent Arab American Institute/Zogby International (AAI/ZI) survey of Arab public opinion demonstrates that overall attitudes toward the US have worsened, and that negative attitudes have hardened.

Here’s the obvious: the two principal factors accounting for this animosity are US policy toward Iraq and Palestine.
In four of the five Arab countries covered in our 2006 survey (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco and Jordan) respondents pointed to US policies in those two areas as the major reasons for their negative attitudes toward the US. Only Lebanon was different. There, of course, US policy toward this summer’s war on Lebanon was the main source of animosity.