South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin writes for Al-Monitor on a new Zogby poll that indicates that a majority of Arabs support President Obama’s opposition to greater US intervention in Syria:
A majority of Arabs support President Barack Obama’s opposition to US military intervention in Syria, according to a new survey that also shows a slight uptick in Arab views of US policies in general.
The poll by Zogby Research Services, released Tuesday, measured the views of 800 to 1,000 Arabs interviewed in person in May in each of the following countries: Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Palestinian territories. (The margin of error was slightly over 3 percentage points in all seven.)