Successive US administrations since Ronald Reagan's time have criticized Israeli settlement building policies in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), although the Obama administration is the first to turn up the heat. Netanyahu didn't help matters by treating Obama like a plantation boy. Prior Israeli leaders did a better job of trying not to upset US leaders of either political party. 

In the real world, Israel has used up the good will it once had because of the Holocaust. There are fewer Jews in the world today than there are Muslims in Metropolitan Cairo, Egypt alone. Many American Jews have few if any contacts at all with Israel, are not religious and have non-Jewish spouses. Netanyahu won't get very far rallying his fellow citizens against Obama, who, in any case will be out of office in a few weeks.