do most americans meet most israelies or arabs in arabic countries...
1 word..media..people will believe what you tell them to believe..and why are they told to believe this? i'll leave that to you to discearn
most Israelis are similar to arabs then us. hell..most of em with beards even look the same..
well, both Israelis and Arabs are semitic peoples, so you are right.
And the media is how most of us know the rest of the world, so you're right there too.
But there is some truth to the media presentation--when I go to Israel, I see a culture that is for the most part very similar to American culture (gender roles, dress, family structure, work habits) . . . when I go to other places in the middle east, I see a culture that is very dissimilar . . .