{"id":1109,"date":"2019-11-22T15:20:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2019-11-22T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:20:18","slug":"its-all-about-the-benjamin-now-bibi-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2019\/11\/22\/its-all-about-the-benjamin-now-bibi-that-is\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all about the Benjamin now \u2013 Bibi, that is."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On 21<sup>st<\/sup> November 2019, \u201cAttorney General Avichai Mandelblit handed down a harsh and severe charge sheet on Thursday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\u201d People worldwide are cheering. The process in the Knesset of removing Bibi\u2019s immunity from prosecution could take up to 30 days. This comes at a very interesting time in the evolving fortunes of the Middle East. We\u2019ll look a little closer at Bibi\u2019s contested chart here to get some clues about what to expect.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thus far, since the September election, neither side has been able to form government. Gantz has given up now. It is looking like Israel is headed toward its third election this year. The move by Mandelblit comes at a time when it would appear to be politically motivated, to keep Bibi from coming back to power. But there is more to it than that, and the focus now is on the removal of immunity from prosecution. The indictment was not handed down in October, as expected, but after both parties had gone through their respective efforts to form government. <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Breaking-News\/Mandelblit-reportedly-will-announce-Netanyahu-indictment-today-608541\">The cited article<\/a><\/span> goes on the state:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Frequently, indicted MKs waive their immunity sooner, but Netanyahu has been trying to delay any impact on his power from the indictment process and may try to draw out the process longer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cThis is a hard and sad day,\u201d Mandelblit said in a dramatic speech at the Justice Ministry. \u201cI am bringing an indictment on public corruption against the prime minister in three cases. It is sad for me personally and for the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Mandelblit said that while he greatly admired Netanyahu\u2019s talents, he was obligated by the law to press the charges against him. He said that no man was above the law, and that enforcing the law should not be used as a political football by either the Left or the Right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We will get straight into the astrology here and then look at the surrounding circumstances. <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2019\/09\/25\/is-this-bibis-swan-song\/\">From our previous look at Netanyahu<\/a><\/span>, we have two likely candidates for charts, one with a 9:15 birth time and another for 10:15. Rather interesting is the placement of Uranus in his chart, no matter which one uses. Uranus rules indictments. It is on the 5<sup>th<\/sup> degree of Cancer, which is the Sabian \u2018train wreck\u2019 degree: \u201cAt a railroad crossing, an automobile is wreck by a train.\u201d Uranus is within the accepted orb of the Sun\/Saturn midpoint, one of the \u2018imprisonment\u2019 midpoints (listed on the chart). The 9:15 chart with those midpoints is below (<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/malvinartley.com\/PDF%20Files\/charts\/bibi_mps.png\">bigger<\/a><\/span>):<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1112 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bibi_mps-1024x568.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bibi_mps-1024x568.png 1024w, https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bibi_mps-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bibi_mps-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bibi_mps.png 1437w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Even without a firm birth time there are several things to note. There is a direction of Neptune to the Sun\/Mars midpoint: \u201cdishonest activity. &#8211; <strong>The undermining of one&#8217;s vocational position, receiving notice, disappointment<\/strong>, fraud,\u201d which came into effect with a one degree orb at the end of October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There are currently directions of Jupiter and Ceres to Bibi\u2019s Uranus, showing the indictment, the former showing his obstinate adherence to his own principles as a pattern of opposition, along with a tendency to magnify everything out of proportion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is calling the indictment an attempted coup against him, which reflects his natal Mars\/Saturn midpoint on the 9:15 Midheaven, the latter giving him a rather magnified sense of self-importance. And in the 9:15 chart that Saturn is directed to his ascendant now from the 12<sup>th<\/sup> house (self-undoing and possible imprisonment). And on top of that, speaking of Mars and Saturn, directed Saturn is now square his natal Mars, showing his wings being clipped and the extreme frustration he is no doubt feeling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ceres direction to Uranus shows the sudden turning point in his fortunes. The Neptune direction, above, shows the course they are taking, and the directions of Mars and Saturn, along with the Jupiter direction, show his determination to fight against the charges, blaming everyone but himself. So, do we see a conviction? The 9:15 chart with transits and directions is below (<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/malvinartley.com\/PDF%20Files\/charts\/bibi_indictment.png\">bigger<\/a><\/span>):<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1111 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bibi_indictment-1024x565.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bibi_indictment-1024x565.png 1024w, https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bibi_indictment-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bibi_indictment-768x424.png 768w, https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bibi_indictment.png 1781w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Further to indictments being ruled by Uranus (a sudden change in circumstances), convicts and convictions are ruled by Pluto. If we go with the 9:15 chart a conviction is a distinct possibility. Saturn is currently transiting over the Vertex axis in that chart, showing the restrictions to his natural expression and his world view. In the first of the year, just after New Year, there is the Saturn\/Pluto conjunction on his Jupiter, which will have been activated by two eclipses by then, which could go as far as provoking an illness for him, but at least will highlight his fanatic attitudes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But there is one direction in particular which will prove particularly troubling, both to him and possibly to the region \u2013 the direction of the 9:15 Midheaven to a square of his natal Pluto, which also gives the following directed midpoint: Pluto=Mars\/Saturn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ebertin describes that midpoint combination rather bluntly: \u201cBrutality, <strong>the rage or fury of destruction. &#8211; The intervening of Higher Power, bodily injury or harm (murder, the death of a great many people<\/strong>).\u201d At the very least, it shows the crisis in his career. The danger would be that he may seek to provoke some sort of incident, even a war, to try to save himself. The \u2018intervention of a Higher Power\u2019 would be a conviction on the charges against him. It would be the end of Bibi as a political force. He may be at the end of it anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If we go with the 10:15 chart, there is nothing definitive showing \u2013 no transits to any angles or directions to or by the same, save for a direction of the Vertex axis to Mercury. Still, Mercury rules the 7<sup>th<\/sup> (litigation) and 10<sup>th<\/sup> (career) houses in that chart. Is it enough to show what is happening with him? On the surface, not being supported by other factors, it would not show the seriousness of his situation. The 9:15 chart is a better \u2018fit\u2019. So, we\u2019ll see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With these points in mind we can go now to the surrounding circumstances. What have we seen recently that may give pause to think he might try something foolish?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trump <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/trump-israel-settlements-palestine-west-bank-netanyahu-us-a9209716.html\">unilaterally ruled that the settlements on the West Bank are legal<\/a><\/span>. The rest of the world disagrees.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The recent <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/16\/israel-targets-hamas-in-fresh-strikes-on-gaza\">bombings against Palestinians in Gaza<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/syrian-war-report-november-21-2019-israel-conducts-wide-scale-strikes-on-syria\/\">Israelis struck \u2018Iranian\u2019 and Syrian army positions in the south of Damascus<\/a><\/span> in Syria.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There is continuing unrest in Lebanon and Iraq, and <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2019\/11\/21\/the-2019-iranian-fuel-protests\/\">recent riots in Iran<\/a><\/span> (since died down). Israel and the Saudis are funding the more militant factions of those protests.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The day before the indictment, <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Latest-Energy-News\/World-News\/Did-Qatar-Know-About-The-Saudi-Oil-Attacks-In-Advance.html\">there was a \u2018leaked\u2019 report<\/a><\/span> from US intelligence stating that Qatar knew of the Iranian attacks on the four oil tankers back in May and didn\u2019t warn its allies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/increased-uranium-enrichment-designed-save-nuclear-deal-iran-says\">I<span style=\"color: #993300;\">ran has recently upped the ante in the standoff over the JCPOA<\/span><\/a>. This has been a linchpin of Bibi\u2019s foreign policy \u2013 stoking fear of Iran as a nuclear power.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It would appear that Washington knew about the pending indictment, given the timing of pronouncing the settlements to be legal and the leak about the Qataris. It is similar to what we saw in the days before the election, with awarding the Golan unilaterally and so forth. However, it is doubtful he will try to launch a major attack on anyone. The stakes are too high, both for Israel and the world at large. Instead, we will see provocations like the southern Damascus strike, in his hope that the response will be large \u2013 large enough to mobilize the entire IDF on a war footing. He would then be a wartime PM and thus be able to invoke emergency powers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">What we can likely expect to see are increasing provocations while the trial goes on. Those will be justified as \u2018measured and necessary response\u2019 to \u2018unprovoked attacks\u2019 on Israeli territory. Netanyahu has relied upon security threats, real and contrived, as a means of maintaining his support, having taken a hard line essentially on anything Shia or Syrian, while at the same time increasing the pressure in friendly nations against \u2018anti-Semitism\u2019 \u2013 in effect, anti-Zionism. One cannot mention one or the other nowadays without the two being conflated. It has been a very effective ploy, but it is also fast losing its shine as a tactic for maintaining support in friendly nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The truth is, Bibi is proving over the years to have been less and less effective as a Prime Minister. As is usual in democracies (if Israel truly has a democracy), it is usually economics that determines the outcomes of elections. Israel\u2019s economy is increasingly stagnating. It suffers from the same neoliberal disease as does most of the West \u2013 rising prices in most things (<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boi.org.il\/en\/NewsAndPublications\/PressReleases\/Pages\/01-12-2014-HousingPurchasingPatterns.aspx\">especially housing<\/a><\/span>, and there is a big clue about the push for settlements in the West Bank), stagnant wages and concentration of wealth in about <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2013\/11\/israeli-inequality-and-oligarchy\/\">20 families Israel-wide<\/a><\/span>. Bibi hasn\u2019t been able to shake that. In fact, he has been part of the problem, hence his indictments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Netanyahu could still pull off some sort of coup, but his chart just does not show it. He is not a man to be counted out until he is gone, though. He still has wide support in the US, and so long as that support remains, especially with Congress the way it is now, right-wing governments in Israel will persist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, Israel is changing, and they are increasingly boxed in. This may be another reason for the indictments \u2013 to be certain that his militant policies toward Iran and other Shia groups are discontinued. It is not so far-fetched. The Arab states are making up with Syria. Turkey is turning Eastward. Iran is there to stay and increasing its role in the region, as is China and Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The scenery is changing like the colors of autumn in the Middle East, and Israel\u2019s leaves are quickly starting to lose their color and fall. Israel will be a different place going into the next decade. It will survive, but it will have to make peace with its neighbors, especially Iran. The days of having Iran as a convenient enemy are over. And with that, Bibi\u2019s star is falling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Featured pic from <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/israeli-politics-churn-as-netanyahu-indictment-adds-to-chaos\/a-51358757\">Deutsche Welle<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 21st November 2019, \u201cAttorney General Avichai Mandelblit handed down a harsh and severe charge sheet on Thursday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\u201d People worldwide are cheering. The process in the Knesset of removing Bibi\u2019s immunity from prosecution could take up to 30 days. This comes at a very interesting time in the evolving fortunes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2019\/11\/22\/its-all-about-the-benjamin-now-bibi-that-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s all about the Benjamin now \u2013 Bibi, that is.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,264,74],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astrology","tag-indictment","tag-netanyahu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}