The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dropped drastically as a priority for Arabs since last year. A poll of Arabs in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates found that the conflict ranked seventh, as opposed to second in 2004; employment opportunities ranked first this year. Commissioned by the Arab American Institute and carried out by Zogby International, the poll found little support for the notion that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the most important factor in determining attitudes toward the United States, which remained mostly negative. Instead, the war in Iraq and American treatment of Arabs and Muslims figured much larger. The poll of 3,900 respondents was conducted in mid-to-late October.
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