Sentence examples for arab antipathy from inspiring English sources

Ross believes Arab antipathy toward America has been greatly heightened by the perception that Bush is "indifferent to a conflict that animated a basic grievance among those in the Arab and Islamic worlds".

As al-Ma'mun remained in Marv and made no signs of returning to the caliphal capital, a wave of Arab antipathy towards al-Ma'mun and his "Persian" supporters came to the fore in the western regions of the Caliphate, particularly in Baghdad and surroundings, which feared being degraded to a mere province.

Turkey, too, needed an alliance with a powerful country like Israel to balance its poor standing among Arabs, whose antipathy toward Turks may well be a holdover from the days of the Ottoman Empire.

Sahir Erozan, a Turkish-American businessman who has worked in Washington's political circles, tells me that five or ten years ago there was outright antipathy felt by Arabs towards Turkey.

Back then the Muslim-Jewish rift didn't seem as sharp as it is today, but decades of Israeli-Arab wars and a growing antipathy between the United States and Muslim-majority countries have bred a culture of mistrust and fear between Muslims and Jews.

The first is the old antipathy between the Sunni Arabs and the Kurds, who bitterly remember the oppression suffered under Hussein's Sunni-dominated dictatorship.

At the same time, it could distract from Mr. Netanyahu's efforts to forge stronger relations with Sunni Arab nations on the basis of shared antipathy toward Iran, dominated by a Shiite theocracy that has threatened Israel's existence and challenged Arab interests in the region.

Despite widespread sympathy for the Libyan rebels, an antipathy is nonetheless growing among the Arab public against Western intervention as the hypocrisy of policies is laid bare.

A poll published in the newspaper Le Figaro in April 2003 conducted by the CSA polling organization indicated that 19percentt of the French population had "antipathy" for North Africans, who are mostly Arab Muslims, compared with 9percentt for Jews and 8percentt for black Africans.

No one suggests that the Arabs as a people lack talent or suffer from some pathological antipathy to democracy.

Marwan Shehadeh, an Islamist activist and researcher in Jordan, argued that Arabs would see Bin Laden's death through the lens of their antipathy to American policies — interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq and support for Israel — without regard to his views.