if 9/11 never happened (to mean no major AQ attack on the US) how would Americans view American Muslims? and how would we in general view the Muslim world? would Americans stand on the Israeli issue be different? if so in what way?
It is soon a closed debate, so.. I will veer the situation into a more usefull way maybe.
How and when the views of americans on muslims and middle east can be improved to at least calm neutrality? A failed Zionism?
I think that we'd in fact be less critical, because in our non-9/11 world middle east would get much less press in the US, the Media I'd guess would be more celebrities than anything else if you remember the press between 1999-2001, non-American news was almost never covered, the one story was that spy plane that crashed in China.I doubt the US's opinion on Israel shifts much; America backed them for decades before 9/11 after all. There might be some minor shift towards a slightly more critical stance on the worst Israeli excesses, but the US-Israel special relationship would remain largely intact.
I don't think anything that extreme is required; just butterfly away Operation Ajax and have the US keep to its position circa the Suez Crisis, and relations between the US and Middle East would remain quite cordial.It will take more than that I suspect. Arab nationalism itself may need to be butterflied meaning at the very least a different history of the Ottoman Empire in its later years.
I think that we'd in fact be less critical, because in our non-9/11 world middle east would get much less press in the US, the Media I'd guess would be more celebrities than anything else if you remember the press between 1999-2001, non-American news was almost never covered, the one story was that spy plane that crashed in China.
Considering a more isolationist US, I imagine you would get an odd divide in opinion compared to OTL. Most of the US populace would be largely apathetic, but vaguely pro-Israel. However, the people who actively followed/are interested in the area are likely to be warier of Israeli actions/intentions.