But not just because of Israel

Is America, by extension including America's closest allies (such as Britain), hated in the Arab world for supporting Israel? Well, up to a point. But only up to a point. Zionism is busily wiping itself of the map, exactly as advocated by the President of Iran (who has only ever called for the dismantlement of the Zionist, like the Soviet, system, and never for any people to be wiped off the map in the Levant any more than in the territory of the former Soviet Union), by appointing non-Jewish Arab citizens (over half of Israel's Jewish citizens being also Arabs) to the Supreme Court, to the Cabinet, and so forth.

By contrast, their is no sign whatever of the dismantlement or reform of the American-backed Gulf monarchies, or of the American-backed Mubarak regime in Egypt, under which live vastly more Arabs than live either in Israel or in the territories occupied in 1967. The Bush Administration has not in fact been especially pro-Israel at all, at least not by American standards. But its support for the ghastly Mubarak, the ghastly House of Saud, the ghastly House of Sabah and the rest has been, and remains, absolute.