They get along with Russia because the USSR was allies with them and spread communism to the middle east and those middle easterners still look at Russia with favor because of that.

Many of those countries had their own Christian population until the US/Israel financed terrorists destabilized their governments. Syria and Lebanon are good examples of this.

Who lived as second class citizens. Although I do agree that we should have stayed out of their business militarily unless we were going to actually take over.