Let's see now--Israel invades Lebanon twice and is forced out by Hezbollah.

Does Israel feel threatened because it can no longer freely invade its neighbors?  Most people would view that as a positive rather than some issue that has to be patronized by the US in its dealings with Iran.

And daily, Israel threatens war with Iran, yet Israel is the nation constantly harrassed?

look, l get that there's plenty of blame to go round, and certainly there are no heros here. but until israel is willing to go back to the 1967 boundaries, abandon the settlements, live with a two state solution for palestine, become involved in meaningful negotiations in lieu of the semantic games they play for the benefit of the u.s., as well as stop their overt,  covert and bellicose actions against those whom dislike, they're never going to have peace nor any semblance of security.

none of israel's neighbors pose an existential threat to them, regardless of their protestations regarding same. israel, on the other hand, does pose an existential threat to some of them, especially the palestinians, and, one could reasonably argue, the iranians, who they're jones'in to bomb the shit out of. so just how are we supposed change their paranoia?

who's the sole nuclear power in the ME? who has a huge standing army, air force, and navy... with the very best made in america equipment our money can buy... that's used indiscriminately at the slightest provocation?

they have become the exmplar of the old proverb, you reap what you sow. l've lost whatever sympathy l had for them because of their actions, and frankly, l'm tired of the meme of israel as the victim. at best they're victims of their own actions and delusions.

and to pick a nit....l know where israel is, as well as iran, and it's about 1000 miles, as the crow flies, from tel aviv to tehran.....try 4% of the way around the globe. one could draw some interesting parallels between the situation the ME, with that between mainland china and taiwan, albeit, on a different scale [btw, they're only 100 miles apart] including, but not limited to, a proposed two state solution that's been around for a while...at least they're not killing one another over minor irritants... take that as you will.

an aside: l'm still trying to figure out what nigeria's got to do with this...huh?

the revolution will not be televised...

And of course it is Iran, not Israel, that is making terms that are impossibly hard on the Palestinians.

It's not that Israel has, from the beginning, been determined to make "Judea and Samaria" part of its territory and at times has explicitly said so, it is that Iran is making it impossible for Israel to stop its frantic confiscation and colonization of land - aka creation of "facts on the ground" intended to obviate the creation of a Palestinian state, and whose outline was planned by the Moshes Alon and Dayan in 1967 and refined since then.