America has a been listening to our allies in England and Israel on this matter. Yesterday David Cameron was all up in Parliament telling their elected that this is all justified. No media source is even mentioning Israel as far as I've seen, and that's usually cause for suspicion when Israel is silent. *The majority of English people are opposed to this, and Jewish people as people are really great, and as a child raised in a religion against her will I used to pray to be Jewish.*
But protecting Israel is NOT our responsibility, and securing England's interest in the region is what got much of the Middle East upset with us to begin with. The US didn't win any oil rights in Iraq, The "rights" to Iraqi oil went to British Petroleum and Petronis