Seriously, it's too bad that many people in this country think that it's something we've done to make them dislike us so. The truth is that their own society has tremendous problems and they're unwilling to face them. Just a whole lot easier to hate us Americans and Israelis.
The fact that some Saudi intellectuals made these statements isn't particularly disturbing. We have our own academics and intellectuals who spout the same kind of garbage here.
The problem is that almost nobody in those countries is speaking out against this kind of rhetoric. If I were an arab living the Middle East, I'd probably be against Israel and US, too, having never heard anything to the contrary in my life. There is nothing but this endless stream of propaganda.
I'm not sure how we fight it.