Actor Jon Voight has released a message of support for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday, encouraging Israelis to vote for him and encouraging American support for the premier ahead of the 2015 Knesset elections later this week. 

Voight, in his address, argued that a vote for contender Yitzhak Herzog places Israel in imminent danger during a volatile time.

“I love Israel,” he begins. “I want to see Israel survive, and not be overtaken by the madmen of this world.” 

“President Barack Obama does not love Israel,” he continued. “His whole agenda is to control Israel, and this way he can be free to be friends with all of Israel’s enemies.”

“He doesn’t want Bibi Netanyahu to win this upcoming election,” he added. “America has not been the same since his presidency.”

“I beg everyone, all of you, to understand the truth: those – like Yitzhak Herzog – who believe that deal-making is the solution to what Israel faces are as wrong as Neville Chamberlain believing he made a peace deal with Hitler,” he concluded. “We must learn from history where the true danger lies.” 

Voight is just the latest American celebrity to endorse an Israeli political candidate, exhibiting just how closely the elections are being watched in the US.

Last week Jewish comedian Sarah Silverman tweeted her Israeli followers to vote for the radical-left Meretz party.