The people of Israel are on their own

We owe Israel nothing. I hate how people make it seem that if you are anti-Israeli, that you are anti-semetic. Israel is an apartheid state!!!

Very interesting thread. Too bad it's buried in the forums of a movie which is likely to fly under the radar of the majority of main stream movie viewers. Anyway, just to add a few thoughts from my opposite side of the spectrum.
1. As another poster mentioned, America is infinitely better off disassociating with the unlawful, occupying state of Israel. America doesn't owe the so-called nation of Israel anything yet it has historically been bending over backwards and jumping through hoops to please every whim Israel has had since the unlawful 1948 mandating of the sovereign nation of Palestine to a bunch of homeless Jews. I don't want to get into a historical/political debate here but I'm telling you the simple belief of the vast majority of Arabs and Muslims. You mentioned that Israel is justified to be an apartheid regime because of the nature of its neighbors and even its Arab population. We, Muslims, beleive Israel is occupying lands that rightfully belong to the people who had resided there for the past 1200 years prior to the UK giving it away to complete strangers. At any case, this whole paragraph is a digression from my point. Most Americans do feel a deep sense of indebtment towards the nation of Israel. Some are aware of this on a conscious level. Most have been implanted with this feeling (among an array of other emotions that America's puppet masters have spent the last 200 years implanting in Americans) through a doctrine that starts with school students reading and weeping their eyes out over Number the Stars and an entertainment media that's wholly controlled by Zionism and serves no one but Zionist agenda at the cost of non suspecting Americans's wellbeing. The more religious American is kept in the same "America will die to defend Israel" sphere through biblical teachings that the installation and continuation of the state of Israel is paramount to facilitating the second coming of the messiah, aka Jesus Christ.
2. If we remove the religious Christian emotion out of the equation, why is America friends with the so-called Israel? What has Israel offered to America and Americans other than taxing American economies by hundreds of millions of tax-payer dollars that go into arming Israel and keeping its military institution top notch? This is happening at the cost of 1.5 billion Muslims (Sunni and Shia) loathing America (and in the case of extremists, Americans by proxy). This is happening at the cost of helping Israel in a war which prompted the famous oil embargo which devastated American economy and regular every day Americans. Regular every day Americans called out their politicians for what they perceived as American dependency on foreign oil but no one questioned the root cause which started the embargo: America getting its nose stuck in a war it has absolutely no stakes in, aside from the aforementioned religious stakes.
3. Obama, while initially perceived by Arabs and Muslims as finally a reasonable, intelligent leader of the world's only super power (after Bush the idiot and Clinton the cheater and Bush the liar and Regan the Hollywood actor, etc) has proven on a daily basis that he has been a very skilled manipulator who, in spite of the average American beliefs, inflected the worst yet damage to Arabs in the Middle East. This is a common consensus not a scientific fact so I'd be happy to elaborate on why it's thought so if you want.
3. The deal with Iran, my dear friend, isn't to be taken at face value. Of course, and I mean no offense, I'm not the least bit surprised if more Americans than not did just that. After living years around the US, I personally know how news there tend to be exclusively one sided and rehearsed.
The Iran deal at face value is an indication of an end to an era of hoatilities between Iran and the west. As I type this, the detained US sailors who accidentally wandered into Iran territorial waters were freed in a historical record time and this just adds to the hype of how well America and Iran are getting along.
However, the deal was tailored to fuel the regional tensions between Sunni and Shia populations and governments. In essence, a pure devide and conquer tactic. If you follow the news you will see that Obama's Iran deal has already sparked unprecedented diploma rifts between the two regional powers Saudi and Iran.
Now, all that said, I don't think you need to be worried about "calculated risks" such as Iran. What America and the rest of the world (including people from all faiths and races) is the IS (which, by the way, ironically is believed to be the brainchild of America's CIA, by many Arabs and Muslims - another form of the America financed jihadists who later on formed the so called al-Qaeda) and NK. Those two powers are almost certainly in possession of nuclear weapons, either of their own manufacting or through the purchasing of former USSR nations or such, and they are volatile and emotional enough to initiate massive global strikes to serve whatever insane agendas they have.

Hey BOY Obama gave Israel the Iron Dome.