Jim Zogby, discussing the poll results at a symposium at the Middle East Institute in Washington, attributed the results to continuing hangover from the military interventions of the George W. Bush years.

Although large majorities in Morocco and Jordan said ending the conflict in Syria was one of the top two challenges important for US-Arab relations, only 6% in Morocco and 8% in Jordan favored US airstrikes in Syria. US direct military involvement and even providing weapons to the Syrian opposition got low poll numbers in all seven countries, while majorities favored humanitarian aid to refugees and efforts to achieve a negotiated end to the conflict — which happens to be current US policy.

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.)

WASHINGTON — 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.

He noted that in his West Point speech last week, Obama reflected an American population weary of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and put forward a minimalist vision when it comes to the use of US military force abroad. “It appears that the Arab world is [war-weary] too,” Zogby said. He said the poll results also reflect a lack of confidence that US military intervention brings better results.

As always, the Arab-Israeli conflict got top billing as crucial to US-Arab relations and the poll showed little confidence that the United States would fulfill its avowed policy of trying to midwife the birth of an independent Palestinian state. Marwan Muasher, a former Jordanian foreign minister who is now at the Carnegie Endowment, said “the US has taken itself out of the game” of negotiating a solution to the conflict with the collapse of the latest round of peace talks.

The poll showed that in none of the seven countries did a majority have a favorable view of the United States but that the numbers have improved since 2011. The US is most popular in the United Arab Emirates, where 44% had a favorable view. However, in all seven nations, substantial majorities said it was important for their countries to have good relations with the United States.

Turkey, which had seen its regional popularity grow in recent years, has lost its luster, according to the poll, as increasing numbers of Arabs question the success of the so-called Turkish model and the increasingly authoritarian rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP).

Similarly, Iran has continued to slide in regional popularity from its high point in the aftermath of the Hezbollah-Israel war in 2006. Iran’s crushing of political protests in 2009 and especially its support for Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria have undercut its posture and increased sectarian feeling throughout the region. Iran is particularly reviled in Saudi Arabia, where only 1% had a positive view of the Shiite-majority country across the Persian Gulf. But even in Saudi Arabia, only 23% said ending Iran’s nuclear program should be a top US priority and throughout the region, large majorities favored a diplomatic resolution of the issue even while doubting negotiations would succeed.

Among the more surprising poll results was the view of a majority in most of the countries surveyed that the Obama administration had not been sufficiently supportive of the government of Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president who was ousted by the military a year ago. Even in Egypt, 61% faulted the US for not being “supportive enough” of Morsi, a leader in the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood. The findings underlined Egyptian ambivalence about last year’s coup and lukewarm feelings about Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the military leader who was elected president last week in elections that had to be prolonged to three days to ensure a respectable turnout.

Overall, the poll sent a message to Washington: First, do no harm.

It's a message that the Obama administration appears to have internalized.