Systematic investigation of attitudes expressed in Arabic on Twitter towards the United States and Iran during 2012–13 shows how the analysis of social media can illuminate the politics of contemporary political discourses and generates an informative analysis of anti-Americanism in the Middle East.

“I think that anger in the Arab street is real. It is produced by a number of different factors. But in the end, what matters is not whether they hate us or love us—for the most part, they hate us. They did before. But whether they are going to respect our power.” With these words addressed to the U.S.

House of Representatives in 1991, in the aftermath of the Gulf War, Martin Indyk, then executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and later one of the architects of the failed Middle East policy in the Clinton administration, dismissed the history of anti-Americanism in the Arab world. “The antipathy towards the West that is likely to follow this war,” added Indyk in a prepared statement he also submitted, “has long been present in the Arab world. Gold miner game rival. It cannot be resolved.

The incongruity of it seemed to be nothing short of a betrayal.

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