Benjamin Netanyahu was fuming. For the first time in months, the Israeli Prime Minister had allowed a discussion in his security cabinet about Iran’s nuclear program and it wasn’t going well. Several cabinet members were questioning the wisdom of defying the United States.Netanyahu is wary of the White House’s assurances that it won’t let Iran go nuclear.The next morning, leaks from the Sept. meeting appeared in the Israeli press, prompting Netanyahu to cancel a second parley. Discussions at security-cabinet meetings are highly classified and the leak was unusual. For Netanyahu, the message was clear: members of his own government had reservations about his direction on Iran and wanted the public to know it.Netanyahu now seems unable to marshal enough domestic support for military action.It’s almost impossible to imagine Netanyahu undertaking an attack. In the past year, several retired security chiefs have come out against military action and gained wide public attention (former Mossad director Meir Dagan called it "the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard”). Netanyahu has watched the polls move steadily against him for the past year. One of them, conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute in August, showed just twenty seven percent of Israelis support a unilateral strike—that is, an attack on Iran without a green light from the United States