The American officials' direct attack on the Israeli prime minister is proof that they have lost their tempers. U.S. President Barack Obama, who has failed in every facet of his dealing with the Middle East, is trying to influence Israel's domestic policies based on existential interests in effort to portray some sort of win -- even if it is short-sighted and will endanger the citizens' and their long-term future. When a superpower goes from having a disagreement with the policies of another country and criticizing it while trying to change the situation diplomatically, an attack on that country's decision-makers reveals the superpower's own inability and lack of leadership. Obama is trying to weigh in on domestic Israeli democratic affairs. It is possible that the American president hopes to get the current government to crumble and prompt new elections, in which he hopes the torch will be passed from Benjamin Netanyahu to someone who will submit to his dangerous demands. The Americans blame Netanyahu for every possible pitfall and for getting involved in U.S. politics on the side of the Republicans. He who rejects others is himself forfeit: They are criticizing us for doing exactly what they are doing to us right now, trying to get involved in Israeli politics. Israel cannot blink now and any concession we make will only worsen the security situation and increase demand for greater and more critical concessions, which could eventually when added together present an existential threat to the state. Jeffrey Goldberg wrote on Tuesday that Obama is no longer concerned that Israel will use its right to self-defense against Iran, as he said he was three or four years ago, which prompted him to impose sanctions on Iran (which he will lift to secure Iran's cooperation against Islamic State). There will be a conflict of interests between Israel and the U.S., and this would mean Iran would be closer to having operational nuclear capabilities which it will aim at Israel, among others, as the Iranian government has claimed it would over the past decades. It looks as if Iran is pushing Netanyahu to surprise it, as the late former Prime Minister Menachem Begin did to Iraq in 1981, with the bombing of the Osirak nuclear reactor. This is a complex quandary and getting out of it requires finding a way to minimize Obama's ability to hurt us. Israel needs to change its policy and to base it on the fact that international law gives Jews the sovereign right to live on all of the state of Israel west of Jordan. This fact has been muddled by our enemies for obvious reasons, but also by our leaders for less clear motives. Having a national policy based on international law will weaken the U.S. administration's ability to justify steps against it in the eyes of the justice-seeking American public. It is also the only tool Israeli diplomacy has that could influence the rest of the Western countries, including European ones, which have been, as a result of their increasing number of Muslim voters, working against our interests as well.