WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- Arab views in the Middle East toward the United States are strongly affected by U.S. policies on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Iraq.
Two polls were conducted by Zogby International in May and June for two different groups.
One commissioned by the Arab-American Institute, surveyed 3,300 people in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan.
Eighty-four percent of respondents had an unfavorable overall view of the United States, while 11 percent had a favorable view.
U.S. foreign policy on Iraq and the Middle East was unpopular, the survey said, and favorable ratings toward U.S. terrorism policy had declined as well.
AAI said the survey reveals pessimistic views toward the United States result mostly from U.S. foreign policy actions.
In a poll conducted for the University of Maryland's Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, 60 percent of the Arabs surveyed in May said the United States' transfer of power to the Iraqis would be a cosmetic change only, and 22 percent said it would create more chaos.
Eighty percent of the respondents said the U.S. policy in the Israel-Palestinian conflict is responsible for the attitudes they have developed toward the United States.
