Prime Minister Netanyahu summoned the US ambassador to deliver an official diplomatic protest.

He went public with his attack, too, calling the recent actions against Israel "reckless and destructive" and excoriating John Kerry and President Obama for their own part in this fiendish skullduggery.

He ordered the Israeli diplomatic machinery to start curtailing their working ties with UN Security Council members, including minimizing diplomatic visits and denying foreign ambassadors access to the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

Not to be outdone, Rabbi Levi Shemtov, executive vice president of American Friends of Lubavitch, turned the National Hanukkah Menorah lighting ceremony in Washington on Sunday into a weapon of diplomacy when he squeezed in a not-so-subtle dig about the "darkness" of the UN Security Council's recent actions.

Even Newt Gingrich got in on the act, finding an excuse to blame the whole fiasco on (who else?) those dastardly Russkies.