He was certainly playing that game just for the rubes...you could almost hear the preface: "Mai fello Mericanes..."
But of course Netanyahu has lived in the US...his daddy studied at Dropsie College (later Univ. Of Philidelephia) & was a professor at Cornel.

The US is merely the largest of the elite possessions, Israel it's most vicious. They walk the boards & play theatre in the US, but there's no genuine allegiance, no more than Rupert Murdoch is really Australian, or British or American.

The elite are of course not homoginious and are divided into factions. It's a mistake to think there is a one way commanding line from "American Ceasar" to Israel. As Netanyahu says himself:
"America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction.”

US gullibility is of course assisted by the ease of manipulating the crazy eschatological beliefs of US supposed Christians but the Israeli faction also has huge amounts of Jewish money and government positions out of all proportion to the actual US Jewish population to aid it: nearly all of whom are pro Israel.