It should not be the purpose of this nation's foreign policy to be to "play nice" with any other nation. The purpose of the foreign policy of the United States should be to advance the interests of the United States as effectively as possible. One way to do that which has worked well for us before is to promote enlightened, Western political ideals wherever and whenever we can, because people who govern themselves democratically tend to love peace and seek prosperity.
Israel is a free, prosperous nation with a parliamentary government. It would never have fought with any Arab nation if various alliances of them had not attacked or threatened to attack and destroy it--which they did in 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973. Part of the price several of those nations paid was the loss of some of their territories when the fighting stopped and the borders adjusted. No nation has ever been obliged to give up land it gained in the course of defending itself against foreign attack. The defenders shed blood for that land, and giving it back to the aggressors would encourage even more aggression by reducing the price they paid for it.
Israel has no quarrel with Iran, either--the two nations are many hundreds of miles apart and have no common border or territorial dispute. And yet since the Jew-hating Khomeinists took power in Iran in 1979, they have continually threatened to attack Israel. They have attacked it, too, by murdering Israelis in a number of countries in terrorist attacks. Some of these have occurred in Europe and some even farther away. Twenty years ago, bombings in Argentina that targeted and killed many Jews were almost certainly the work of Iranian agents. Animosity toward Jews is rooted in the Koran itself, and under shari'ah observant Muslims are called upon to war against them. Extreme fundamentalist Muslims believe Jews are guilty of killing certain messengers that Allah sent before Mohammed.
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