No we don't want to lose the support of the local population who we need to win the war in Iraq and to turn it into a stable western friendly nation
You British can try all you want, whether or not as collaborators with the Arab world, but you simply cannot wish away that sh***y little country, Israel.
If we need bullets or other armaments to do our work in Israel or elsewhere, there simply is no moral justification to let our troops be put in harms way because we are willing to capitulate to anti-Semitism -- if this episode does not in fact constitute our outright engaging in it.
Do you really think that's high on the list of issues they have with us? From what I recall of this, it was an issue initially raised by politicians here in the US, not our military.