Well, back in 2003, we were polling at 13% approval in Egypt, so we were more popular there than Dick Cheney is here.

survey that I conducted in six Arab countries in late February and early March found an unprecedented tide of public opinion running against the United States as American troops massed outside Iraq. Only 4 percent of respondents in Saudi Arabia, 6 percent in Jordan and Morocco, 10 percent in the united Arab Emirates, and 13 percent in Egypt expressed a favorable view of the United States. Even in Lebanon, where opinion was more positive, only 32 percent of respondents had a favorable view (see table 1). And when respondents were asked, in an open question, to name the world leader they most admired, the name mentioned most often was French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, who confronted the Bush administration directly to try to stop the U.S. war effort.

http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2003/summer_forceandlegitimacy_telhami.aspx

Or maybe this one:

CAIRO - Ahmed Ibrahim has always dreamed about living in the United States. He thinks America provides a good model for Egypt. "I'd like us to have that kind of freedom, my sons to have that kind of freedom,'' he says. Yet, over the past year, he's come to see the US as an enemy of democracy in his region, a country that plays by a different set of rules at home than it does abroad.

"Now that I look back, we can see that the plan to control us has been there all along. I just didn't recognize it before,'' says Mr. Ibrahim, a prosperous businessman in his mid-30s. "The US supported the Shah of Iran, then dropped him. The same thing with Saddam. Now they say they're bringing democracy to Iraq, but it's just getting worse and worse. They're just shuffling the Arabs around like pieces on a gameboard."

He isn't alone. A June poll by Zogby International in six Arab countries showed that America's already-limited esteem in the Arab world has plummeted since the invasion of Iraq. Just two years ago, Zogby found that 76 percent of Egyptians had an unfavorable impression of the US. Today, that number is 98 percent.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0902/p06s02-wome.htm

Granted, I don't blame them. Post Iraq invasion and Bush reelection, I hated us too.

No one is being "silenced." This persecution complex from the people playing the "people keep playing the anti-Semitism card" card is a pre-emptive whine, nothing more.

Glenn will not get fired for his opinion, nor should he be. Edwards, the congresswoman Glenn cites as critiquing Israel, will not suffer any consequences. If Obama condemns Israel's attack, he will not be "silenced." The Neo-Cons may try to play the anti-Semitism card, but just because a bunch of right wing loons abuse language in this arena (as they do in every arena they stink up with their nonsense), that does not mean that either a) anyone is actually being silenced, or b) that real anti-Semitism doesn't get thrown around when discussing this issue.

So many in here want to reduce this to an either/or.

Either every critique of Israel is anti-Semitic, or it isn't.

In the past few pages alone, people continue to distort what I've written, claiming I'm trying to "silence" anyone. Heck, if I could get some of you simply to admit that anti-Semitism still exists, I'd take it as an accomplishment at this point. Getting many of you to acknowledge we have seen it's ugly face on this board today would be a damn near miracle.

No one is being "silenced." This is a complex issue, and the real anti-Semites will seize on this, just like they seized on Madoff, to conjure up grand global power conspiracies of hidden Jewish money. From the right, that money is from George Soros and his liberal friends. On the left, it's a secret cabal birthed from Leo Strauss and the Chicago school and permeating PNAC as an Israeli-agenda under cover of "American" policy.

I would hope our side, long the province of an awareness of ethnic sensitivity when discussing fears of Mexican invasion of the south (in the racist Lou Dobbs) or black welfare queens (founs in most conservative coded-racism seen in "Nanny State" arguments), would also be aware for our danger to code our arguments about Israel in the language of dog-whistle anti-Semitism.

Just as republicans couch their racism in double talk, a small minority, ostensibly on the "left," do the same with regards to Israel.

But since Jews are the "powerful ethnicity," apparently it's not as big a concern as when this double-talk and dog-whistle language is directed at blacks or gays or Latinos.