Maybe It's Decided It Doesn't Need Them, Jonathan?

Those 'it needs most' being...those who don't live there:

Second is the impact of all this on the Jewish diaspora, especially in the US. The American Jewish attachment to Israel is profound, but US Jews also tend to be liberal with a strong sense of social justice. They will find Feiglin and Bennett hard to stomach. The Haaretz blogger who asked, "Will 2013 be the year American Jews secede from Israel?" may have got ahead of himself. Diaspora Jews will not break from Israel, but they will surely recoil from this one, albeit dominant, Israeli political camp. Feiglin's Israel is not the Israel their parents taught them to love.

It's very easy to be a wet liberal pacifist when you don't face any threat. When you are many, many miles away.

Not quite so easy when the rockets are falling...