Yes it is, especially when you use misinformation, lies and distortions to inflame the ?Arab street?. As long as that is done there will be no peace in the Middle East. BTW, nice copy and paste from Zmag. Were you so ashamed of the site that you didn't want to credit it? I don't blame you. I would be ashamed to credit using such a biased and hate-mongering site such as that also.
1947-48: U.S. backs Palestine partition plan. Israel established. U.S. declines to press Israel to allow expelled Palestinians to return.
Yes, the US did support the formation of Israel. Many Arabs supported the Nazis in WWII. Arafat?s uncle the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem worked with Hitler on the final solution to the ?Jewish problem?. The Jews had peacefully tried to buy the land that they wanted. The Arabs started riots and even went so far as to kill other Arabs that dared sell land to the Jews. So yes, the Jews got a homeland. It?s a shame the Arabs attacked them the very next day.
1949: CIA backs military coup deposing elected government of Syria.1
Rathmell, Andrew. "Copeland and Za'im: Re-evaluating the Evidence." Intelligence and National Security 11, no. 1 (Jan. 1996): 89-105.
http://intellit.muskingum.edu/alpha_folder/R_folder/rao-rd.html
This is a succinct presentation of Rathmell's arguments in Secret War in the Middle East (see below) with regard to the coup carried out by Syrian Chief of Staff Col. Husni Zaim on 30 March 1949. The author looks at Miles Copeland's claims that he (and ostensibly the CIA) was behind Zaim's coup. Rathmell concludes that "the evidence now available does not in fact support Copeland's claims"; indeed, "the CIA had at best a peripheral role in Za'im's coup."
1953: CIA helps overthrow the democratically‑elected Mossadeq government in Iran (which had nationalized the British oil company) leading to a quarter‑century of repressive and dictatorial rule by the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi.
That was actually a British plan that the US assisted with. Mossadeq was making friends with the Soveits. When you put many of the actions taken into their cold-war context it explains why they were taken.
1956: U.S. cuts off promised funding for Aswan Dam in Egypt after Egypt receives Eastern bloc arms.
So? The US has the right to support or not support a nation based on who else it is in bed with.
1956: Israel, Britain, and France invade Egypt. U.S. does not support invasion, but the involvement of its NATO allies severely diminishes Washington's reputation in the region.
You left out the small reason of why.
http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa112101b.htm
Negotiations for British withdrawal began in February of 1953, but it was not until July 1954 that agreement was reached. On 19 October, 1954, a treaty ceding the Suez Canal to Egypt was signed which required all British troops to be removed by June 1956. There was still one proviso: the British would be allowed to return to Egypt if they, or any nearby Arab state, were attacked. This condition was imposed as result of Cold War pressures and the British fear of Soviet expansion in the region.
During 1955 General Nasser made several overtures to communist China and USSR, trading cotton for military aid (an estimated $200 million of arms). However, he maintained a public stance that he wanted to follow a non-aligned policy, favouring neither the West or the Soviets. In reaction to increased purchase of arms, especially from Czechoslovakia, both the US and UK stopped their own arms sales to Egypt. Meanwhile, France was angered by Egypt's aid to the growing Algerian national movement (which was fighting for independence). When the US announced its intention to cut funding of the Aswan Dam project, it specifically referred to Egypt's close ties to the USSR.
On the fourth anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution, 26 July 1956, Colonel Nasser announced his intention to nationalise the Suez Canal. Political escalation, including the deportation of two British envoys for spying, resulted in a stalemate. Nasser promised to compensate the Suez Canal shareholders, but refused to accept international control of the canal. Whilst the US, Britain, and France protested to the UN, the USSR sent ship-pilots to aid Egypt. By September, Egypt was in full control of the canal and war was looming.
For the British and French, the Suez Canal represented a vital lifeline to oil supplies. The British premier Anthony Eden considered an immediate attack on Egypt, but was informed by parliament that the country was not prepared for such a military engagement. Eden secretly worked with France and Israel to plan a combined attack against Egypt,
concealing his co-operation from both his cabinet and political allies (including the US).
Unfortunately for the three allies, there was widespread condemnation of the invasion. Britain and France were threatened with military reprisals by the USSR, and
the US, worried by a potential escalation in the Cold War and an increased involvement by the Soviet Union in Middle East and African affairs, applied heavy political pressure (almost leading to the collapse of the British pound).
I hate when they leave little points like the one above out of the distortions.
1958: U.S. troops land in Lebanon to preserve "stability".
You leave out one small part.
?July 15, 1958 Eisenhower orders U.S. Marines into Lebanon
at the request of President Camille Chamoun.?
early 1960s: U.S. unsuccessfully attempts assassination of Iraqi leader, Abdul Karim Qassim.
1961: Saudi Arabia sends troops to protect Kuwait from threats by Iraqi Premier General Abdul Karim Qassim.
You?ll have to give more detail on how the US did this. It appears that it was only a Ba?ath party attempt. It does appear that, if true, to be another of those communist/Soviet cold war disputes again.
1963: U.S. supports coup by Iraqi Ba'ath party and reportedly gives them names of communists to murder, which they do with vigor.
Cold War politics again.
1967‑: U.S. blocks any effort in the Security Council to enforce SC Resolution 242, calling for Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 war.
So?
1970: Civil war between Jordan and PLO. Israel and U.S. discuss intervening on side of Jordan if Syria backs PLO.
Wow, the US discussed helping Jordan against terrorists. Get real.
1972: U.S. blocks Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat's efforts to reach a peace agreement with Israel.
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_egypt_peace_1971.php
Five days after Sadat suggested he was ready to make peace with Israel, Mohammed Heikal, a Sadat confidant and editor of the semi-official Al-Ahram, wrote:
 Arab policy at this stage has but two objectives. The first, the elimination of the traces of the 1967 aggression through an Israeli withdrawal from all the territories it occupied that year. The second objective is the elimination of the traces of the 1948 aggression, by the means of the elimination of the State of Israel itself. This is, however, as yet an abstract, undefined objective, and some of us have erred in commencing the latter step before the former.
1973: Airlifted U.S. military aid enables Israel to turn the tide in war with Syria and Egypt.
Israel was an ally. The Soviets air-lifted and supplied even more arms and aid to Syria and Egypt. Why not put the blame on the Soviets?
1973‑75: U.S. supports Kurdish rebels in Iraq. When Iran reaches an agreement with Iraq in 1975 and seals the border, Iraq slaughters Kurds and U.S. denies them refuge. Kissinger secretly explains that "covert action should not be confused with missionary work."4
Are you really blaming the US for Arabs slaughtering Arabs?
1975: U.S. vetoes Security Council resolution condemning Israeli attacks on Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
Which camps?
1978‑79: Iranians begin demonstrations against the Shah. U.S. tells Shah it supports him "without reservation" and urges him to act forcefully. Until the last minute, U.S. tries to organize military coup to save the Shah, but to no avail.
Religious fundamentalists Iranians. The world is still having problems with them.
1979‑88: U.S. begins covert aid to Mujahideen in Afghanistan six months before Soviet invasion in Dec. 1979.7 Over the next decade U.S. provides training and more than $3 billion in arms and aid.
Cold war again. Now you seem to be upset that we assisted. The hypocrisy is astounding.
1980‑88: Iran‑Iraq war. When Iraq invades Iran, the U.S. opposes any Security Council action to condemn the invasion. U.S. soon removes Iraq from its list of nations supporting terrorism and allows U.S. arms to be transferred to Iraq. At the same time, U.S. lets Israel provide arms to Iran and in 1985 U.S. provides arms directly (though secretly) to Iran. U.S. provides intelligence information to Iraq. Iraq uses chemical weapons in 1984; U.S. restores diplomatic relations with Iraq. 1987 U.S. sends its navy into the Persian Gulf, taking Iraq's side; an overly‑aggressive U.S. ship shoots down an Iranian civilian airliner, killing 290.
So? You would rather the religious fundies would take over the region?
1981, 1986: U.S. holds military maneuvers off the coast of Libya in waters claimed by Libya with the clear purpose of provoking Qaddafi. In 1981, a Libyan plane fires a missile and U.S. shoots down two Libyan planes. In 1986, Libya fires missiles that land far from any target and U.S. attacks Libyan patrol boats, killing 72, and shore installations. When a bomb goes off in a Berlin nightclub, killing three, the U.S. charges that Qaddafi was behind it (possibly true) and conducts major bombing raids in Libya, killing dozens of civilians, including Qaddafi's adopted daughter.
Libya decided to flaunt every international regulation dealing with territorial waters and declared a range of twelve miles instead of the internationally recognized two miles. The situation with the terrorist government was dealt with.
That's enough to start with. I just got a call to go into work.
I have to wonder if the Arabs were not being lied to and blasted with so much misinformation and distortions what the situation would be in the Middle East.