Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspects that President Joe Biden’s team aims to “overthrow” his government, to judge from Jerusalem’s furious response to a U.S. intelligence assessment of the leader’s political vulnerability.

“Those who elect the Prime Minister of Israel are the citizens of Israel and no one else,” an unnamed senior Israeli official said Tuesday, according to multiple Israeli media outlets. “Israel is not a protectorate of the USA but an independent and democratic country whose citizens are the ones who elect the government. We expect our friends to act to overthrow the terror regime of Hamas and not the elected government in Israel.”