I would like to know what you think about the direction in which Israel seems to be heading?

Democracy appears to be on the decline in Israel (just as it seems to be on the decline in the US). Israel seems to be becoming more like its neighboring countries (even using old Jewish religious tenets against Jewish women). They are also threatening to attack Iran. I understand that they are surrounded by countries that would like to see them disappear off the face of the earth – but that has been the case ever since Israel was established as a country & their stance was not previously as war-like as it is now. One has to wonder just how far are they willing to go? What has changed within Israel itself that would account for their increasingly war-like stance?