Wanting it so, and working to make it so, are two different things.
I know a fair amount about ethnic and religious hatred from my knowledge of Kosovo and the Balkans.
Serb Christians and Muslim Albanians pretty much always were a threat to each other -- at various times someone from one side or the other made loud noises about wiping the other out -- but it really took NATO's one-sided intervention on behalf of the Muslim Albanians to turn those negative feelings into blood-boiling rage and hatred. By the time the humiliating propaganda and Christian bloodletting was done, even I hated Albanians -- me, who was born & raised here in the US, who knew only a handful of Albanians (Albanian American) and almost married one.
What I am saying is that until Israel and her Arab neighbors figure out how to work out some relationships on their own, Israel will never be safe and there will never be peace. And if US policy continues on the path that we've been on in the ME, WE are going to sow the seeds of Israel's destruction -- not Iran.
Virtually every US Presidential Administration for the last 20 years has called for a Palestinian State, including the Bush Administration. Virtually all of the proposals that have been made for that Palestinian State include a return of the land won in the 6 Day war -- The West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights and half of Jerusalem. Any "Palestinian State" that include these territories, makes Israel completely indefensible -- dead meat. Israel's acceptance of it, even at political gunpoint by us, is the equivalent of swallowing a cyanide capsule.
If we continue leading Israel down this path -- under the guise of "protecting her" -- a nuclear Iran is going to be the least of her worries.
We can have the debate about Israel’s ability to defend itself or if there will ever be a Palestinian state that would allow a Jewish state. In my opinion, the Palestinians would sign any kind of deal and the next day make plans to destroy Israel. How convenient to be able to move Iranian weapons freely to their brother state and ally, Palestine.
For me, any potential support of Ron Paul ended that day he told me he would do nothing to stop a N. Korean ship with nukes headed for Iran. As I said earlier, I know what Ronald Reagan would do.