All of these actions contributed to growing anti-U.S. sentiments in the Islamic world in the late twentieth and earlytwenty-first century EXCEPTa. U.S. support for Israel.b. the rise to power of the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran.c. the Gulf War and U.S. liberation of Kuwait.d. the U.S.'s seizing of Saudi Arabian oil fields.e. the growth of insurgent and extremist groups in the Middle East, such as ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq andLevant).