Josh Marshall at TPM has a good post up about this.

Netanyahu believes that US power is forever and that the US political consensus to support Israel in almost any policy choice it makes will never change. So he can simply ignore the currents of history and international affairs and thumb his nose at every other country in the world. But neither is true.

Most of Israel’s leaders and all the giants of early Zionism — whom are demeaned even to be compared to Netanyahu — realized this. They mixed a lot of pragmatism with their improbable idealism.