I'm a realist in the situation. The Israelis have become a Jewish flavor of Nazi. They maintain a militarized racial state, they take what they need from their neighbors, and they have subjected an undermenschen class in Gaza, all things that would make any old Nazi proud. That being said, they also happen to occupy one of the most strategic pieces of real estate on the planet, and they are so deeply in our pockets, that if it were necessary for us to marshal a one million man army there for an invasion of Iran, the would allow our armies to land, gladly. For the US, it's one huge military base pointed like a dagger at the world. We need them, they need us.