article_snippet: On the other side of the debate are people such as Danny Danon, a former Israel deputy defense minister.
article_snippet: Prime Minister Netanyahu sounded the alarm for the survival of our country," Danon said from Jerusalem.
article_snippet: Because of Israeli elections in two weeks, the man who has called Prime Minister Netanyahu the "messenger of all the people of Israel" might not be that for much longer.
article_snippet: A fellow Israeli citizen, Malynnda Littky, disagrees.
article_snippet: Given longstanding issues with the Palestinian territories and the fact that Israel is surrounded by nations with predominantly Muslim populations, Israeli leaders have ample experience with being isolated and on the defensive.
article_snippet: Israeli leaders've also proven a willingness time and
article_snippet: again to act out, if Israeli leaders feel doing so will safeguard Israeli leaders national security.
article_snippet: If the rest of the world can't act to stop this from happening, Prime Minister Netanyahu's suggested, then Israel will.
article_snippet: There's precedent about how that might be done: Israel bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981.
article_snippet: At the time, then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin drew a line in the sand, essentially vowing that no Israeli enemy could develop weapons of mass destruction and that Israel would defend Israel "with all the means at our disposal.
article_snippet: Changing minds in Israel, ahead of the coming election, is another matter.
article_snippet: Whether Tuesday's speech will do that can't be ascertained until there's credible polling after Netanyahu remarks, or arguably once citizens go to the polls in two weeks.
article_snippet: Until then, polls from various Israeli news outlets suggest a tight race.
article_snippet: Some project Prime Minister Netanyahu's Likud party winning fewer seats than the so-called Zionist alliance opposing Netanyahu, though exactly who will end up as prime minister depends on which parties join forces after the votes are cast.