The more extreme Israeli policy becomes, the more likely the US has been to support it, and the less respect it has for the large mass of Arab peoples whose future and well-being are mortgaged to illusory hopes embodied, for instance, in the Oslo accords. Arabs are dehumanised, they are seen as violent irrational terrorists always on the lookout for murder and bombing outrages. Beyond that, there is no feeling at all, for instance, for the dreadful suffering of the Iraqi people whose identity and existence have simply been lost sight of in the present situation. In some way, also, anything positive about the Arabs is seen in the US as a threat to Israel. In this respect, pro-Israeli American Jews, traditional Orientalists and military hawks have played a devastating role.
Moral opprobrium is heaped on Arab states as it is on no others.
Israel occupies territory illegally for 30 years, violates the Geneva conventions at will, conducts invasions, terrorist attacks and assassinations against Arabs, and still the US vetoes every sanction against it in the United Nations. Syria, Sudan, Libya, Iraq are classified as 'rogue states'. Sanctions against them are far harsher than against any other countries in the history of US foreign policy. And still the US expects that its own foreign policy agenda ought to prevail despite its hostility to the collective Arab agenda. In the case of Iraq, a number of further extenuations make the US even more repressive.