If you want US to stay out of the ME, then explain why is Iran hostile to Israel.
Are you seriously asking this question? A person with intensive experience in the region and affairs?
Let me introduce some squatters into your buddy's house (the significance of that region and those people is MUCH more than mere buddies to Iran, and indeed the Muslim world), and then day by day, let me give money and tools and support to the squatters.
First they would take the driveway, then the front yard, then the back yard, then the outhouse/shed, then the garage, then a room in the house itself.
You wouldn't really wanna be friends with me then would you?
This is the core of the issue at hand. NOTHING ELSE. Everything else is either ancilliary, a result of the core, or as a result of policies of the Israeli government.
Fun fact, Muslims and Jews do not hate each other. Infact, Muslims and Jews have cohabited lands for centuries, and Islam even accords them rights as they are people of the book. We have a fair bit in common with the Jews.
Just think in your head for a second, why TF would Muslims want to kill Jews? Are they stupid? Why would they want to kill Christians? Are they stupid? There's 3 billion or something Christians in the world, why do most Muslims only have beef with the US or some other country which tries to impose it's might?
Why does no one have beef with Peru or Chile or Brazil or whatever?
This practice of equating criticism of the Israeli political state with criticism of Jews at large needs to stop, it just reeks of ignorance of a complex issue. (not pointing this at you, but the media and general population).
But I thought Israel gave Gaza back to the Palestinians back in '05.
Continuing my previous example...after taking your buddy's front and back yard, garage, shed, and two rooms in the house, I decide to return the garage to him, but with some restrictions. He cannot park the car during times of night. He cannot open or close the garage more than 3 times a day. He cannot park a car in the garage, but only a motorcycle.
I think that's a fair deal don't you think?