If Netanyahu isn‘t worried, Israelis should be. With its international standing rapidly eroding, and calls for more punishing economic boycotts against Israel‘s incendiary occupation, younger Israelis — the future foundation of the state — are increasingly calling it quits. In 2013 alone, more than double the Israelis quite Israel than in 2012.

When it comes to the US, Netanyahu is playing a very dangerous game that will never serve Israel in the long run. Calculating he can bend Israel‘s most essential of relationships to his will at whatever cost to the relationship, he is playing with fire.