{"id":2568,"date":"2023-12-17T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T21:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2023-12-17T20:02:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T21:02:32","slug":"the-eschatology-of-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2023\/12\/17\/the-eschatology-of-netanyahu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eschatology of Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eschatology<\/strong>: \/\u02cc\u025bsk\u0259\u02c8t\u0252l\u0259d\u0292i\/ Def: the part of theology concerned with death, judgement, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bibi Netanyahu has gotten himself and Israel into a real pickle. Seeing the commencement of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation by Hamas as his golden opportunity to finally rid British Mandate Palestine of the Palestinians, he has, along with his cabinet, grossly miscalculated the resolve and the ability of the Palestinian resistance. The IOF may think it has months to clear Gaza of Hamas, but more informed sources say Israel has only weeks instead of months to do so \u2013 and there are doubts that will happen at all. In this post we take a closer look at Netanyahu, where the conflict stands at the moment, and what the likely trajectory of the conflict is going forward. For more, read on\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Since October 7, and given that it is been two months now, we have reached the point made in the last post regarding the transit of Pluto<\/a><\/span> in its direct phase to the IC of the Israeli 16:15 chart. The IC in a national chart represents infrastructure, land and opposition parties. As it stands the opposition parties external to Israel have coalesced and are gradually increasing the pressure on the IOF incrementally and horizontally.<\/span><\/p>\n

The genocide in Gaza and the Israeli pursuit of supremacy in the region is promoting <\/span>asabiyyah<\/span><\/em><\/a> (group or tribal cohesion, solidarity and unity of action<\/a><\/span>) in the Islamic world against Israel and increasingly against the United States. This is perhaps one reason why we see the abstentions of the UK, Italy and Germany in the UNGA ceasefire vote recently<\/a><\/span>, in order to appear to somewhat distance themselves from the hardline stance of the US and Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was in fact a temporary ceasefire, provoked in part by the UNSC vote on November 15th<\/sup><\/a><\/span> for humanitarian corridors to be opened. No one voted against it, but the US, UK and Russia abstained, allowing the motion to pass. There was also the announcement of a 1,000 boat flotilla from Turkiye<\/a><\/span> to break the humanitarian blockade at the same time. That ceasefire was due to combination pressures, including domestic pressure on Bibi from the families of the hostages to get the hostages released, at least some of them. It was also shown in transits to a key midpoint in his chart, discussed shortly. The ceasefire for four days went into effect on the 24th<\/sup> of November<\/a><\/span>. At the end of the ceasefire the IOF continued its genocide as usual.<\/span><\/p>\n

On December 6 Antonio Guterres invoked article 99 of the UN charter<\/a><\/span>, when transiting Pluto was exact on the Israeli IC, stipulating that the UN Security Council vote on a measure to end the genocide still ongoing in Gaza. It would be a non-binding measure. It is a vote that was vetoed by the US and the UK, of course, but the fact that it was even being floated \u2013 and for the first time ever in Guterres\u2019 tenure \u2013 shows the concern and the outrage of the wider international community:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve just invoked Art.99 of the UN Charter – for the 1st time in my tenure as Secretary-General.<\/span><\/p>\n

Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe & appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Since that initiative was vetoed by the US, the motion was passed to the UNGA, where the vote was overwhelmingly in support of a permanent and sustainable ceasefire (linked above), thus showing the isolation of Israel and the US among world opinion. Since then and sensing growing condemnation and isolation, the Biden administration has begun to mildly pressure the Israelis.<\/span><\/p>\n

At this point the question needs to be asked: Why has no nation invoked the Genocide Convention<\/span><\/a> regarding Israel? It would only take one nation to do so. Craig Murray, ex-ambassador to the UK recently found the answer, and it is quite important to note, and why<\/a><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday I attended a session called by Palestine at the United Nations in Geneva. Over 120 states attended. While the formal session consisted of statements of national position with few surprises, I was able to discuss with a large number of delegates in the corridors why the Genocide Convention has not been activated triggering a reference to the International Court of Justice. The answer is now clear to me. It is not that people are worried that a claim of genocide will not be successful at the International Court of Justice. It is that everybody is quite sure it will succeed. There is no respectable argument that this is not a genocide\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem is that once the ICJ has determined that this is a genocide, it follows that not only are Netanyahu and hundreds of senior Israeli officials and military personally liable, but it is absolutely plain that \u201cGenocide Joe\u201d Biden, Sunak and members of their administrations are also criminally liable for complicity, having provided military support for the genocide. The International Criminal Court cannot ignore a judgment of genocide from the International Court of Justice and will have no choice but to issue arrest warrants.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Let that sink in\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Biden has called for Bibi to alter his course<\/span><\/a>, to reconsider the two-state solution (as in actually implementing it), not that they are at all worried about the Genocide Convention, and warning that Israel faces isolation in the world. In terms of all that, and given Bibi faces ouster and jail time if he relents, there is a word for the warning of the White House from Bibi \u2013 \u2018Buckley\u2019s\u2019, or from WWII, \u2018Nuts\u2019 \u2013 as in little to no chance of Bibi changing course or cabinet.<\/span><\/p>\n

As to the war itself the IOF in Gaza has gradually come to realize they are fighting a very capable and formidable enemy in Hamas<\/a><\/span>. Along with the conflict in Gaza, the actions of Hezbollah in the north of Israel continue and slowly escalate in line with Israeli actions. It is gradually coming out that the IOF is sustaining serious casualties<\/a><\/span>, in a society that is casualty averse. What is reported in Israeli media, like we see Ukraine, is probably the very low end of what the casualties and the nature of them actually are.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ansarallah (the Houthis) are stopping all shipping going to Israel via the Red Sea from arriving in Israel, thus increasing economic pressure \u2013 no food to Gaza, then no Red Sea<\/a><\/span>. Israel is now enduring a naval blockade<\/a><\/span> from the Red Sea, greatly increasing the cost and arrival times of imported goods, impacting the entire Israeli economy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The blockade will impact Europe, too<\/a><\/span>, as shipping companies are now halting all shipping through the Red Sea<\/a><\/span>. In fact, 4 of the 5 major shipping companies have stopped their transit through the Red Sea<\/a>.<\/span> Most raw goods for Israeli industries come from Asia, which normally pass through the Suez Canal. Public unrest in Israel will grow as a result. And with 350,000 working-age reservists now engaged in the fighting, factories are either closed or short-staffed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of the fertile farm lands in Israel are in or around the war zones<\/a><\/span>, so cannot be worked, but Netanyahu\u2019s son Yair is doing his part (hiding out<\/a><\/span>) for the war effort by keeping the family home in Miami maintained while enduring the Miami beaches and weathering the hurricanes. Israelis are not sympathetic<\/a>. Apparently Israel also has its version of fortunate sons when it comes to war<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

As it stands the hasbara from the IOF is off the charts and increasingly ridiculous, constantly debunked on social media. Stories of beheaded babies<\/a><\/span>, rapes by Hamas on Oct 7th<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, Hamas killing civilians during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation<\/a><\/span> (translate from Hebrew), the captured \u2018Hamas\u2019 fighters (Gaza civilians)<\/a><\/span> \u2013 all debunked.<\/span><\/p>\n

As to the latter claim about \u2018captured fighters\u2019, the reasoning (if we can call it that) for calling civilians \u2018Hamas fighters\u2019 comes from the IOF itself<\/a><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn essence, the use of aerial and artillery firepower as a preparation for any ground action is practically unlimited, especially in areas north of the Gaza River, which the IDF had called on civilians to evacuate. Anyone present in those areas is likely to be considered a Hamas operative<\/strong> \u2013 even if they are not directly affiliated with Hamas but have chosen not to leave<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Bolding added. It is much the same as blaming all Republicans in the US for Biden being elected in 2020, or vice-versa with the Democrats and Trump in 2016. They live in the US, therefore they must support the President, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

The truth is the Palestinians did not vote for the Al-Qassam Brigade (the military wing of Hamas) when Hamas took over the leadership of the Gaza Strip in 2006. They voted for the political wing, which ran on a promise of cleaning up corruption and lawlessness<\/a><\/span>, and Hamas followed through on it. And not everyone in Gaza likes Hamas or voted for them. The EU pronounced the 2006 Gaza election free and fair, much to the consternation of Israel and the US. Now Israel must deal with Al-Qassam.<\/span><\/p>\n

The IOF has yet, after two months, to enter the center of Gaza City with ground troops. They are using tactics like those of ISIS<\/a><\/span>, according to Ami Ayalon, former head of Shin Bet. The Al-Qassam and Al-Quds Brigades regularly post videos and comments of their military exploits<\/a><\/span>. We see no pictures or videos of actual captured or killed Hamas fighters in Israeli media. If there had been any, would they not have been paraded across Israeli media?<\/span><\/p>\n

Further than that, Al-Qassam is showing considerable tactical knowhow<\/a><\/span>, even by American standards<\/a><\/span>, knocking off Israeli officers<\/a> <\/span>(there is a list, in Hebrew<\/a><\/span>) instead of the lower ranks, thus disrupting the chain of command on the field for the IOF and souring troop morale. It speaks of incompetence on the part of the IOF.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there are the tunnels, estimated to run 400km+ under Gaza City<\/a><\/span>, with over 1,000 (as of 2009) stretching from southern Gaza into Egypt<\/a><\/span>. The latter have been the lifeline to Gaza since the Gaza blockade was imposed in 2007<\/a><\/span> after Hamas took over. The Israelis considered flooding the tunnels with seawater, but the logistics of that are staggering and it is doubtful they could flood them all or enough of them to make a big difference. With this background we get to the substance of this post \u2013 Bibi Netanyahu.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the end of October Netanyahu had pronounced the struggle between the Palestinians and hardline Zionists (Note: There is no mention of Jews as a whole here) to be existential and thus started spouting eschatological rhetoric in order to rally the troops and Zionists worldwide. As it is, though, the title of this post can be read in several ways.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bibi Netanyahu\u2019s self-proclaimed war against Hamas has taken on a religious and messianic overtone, according to his rhetoric, of his own making. It is a false narrative, as we will see, but it is also rhetoric that speaks of desperation. His rhetoric taps into deeply held beliefs by the majority of the Israeli public, as well as Christian Zionists \u2013 the evangelical Christians \u2013 in the US. Both the Israeli public and the Christian Zionists have been blindsided<\/a><\/span> (for any evangelical reading this) and falsely led to believe the Zionist hard line rhetoric. This has wide implications for the state of Israel, for the Palestinians, and for the region at large, in that it serves to push the conflict into a do-or-die struggle \u2013 existential, in other words.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bibi sees himself as the one man who can lead Israel to victory over the Palestinians, on the way to realizing the fabled \u2018Greater Israel\u2019, which is envisioned to stretch from the Fertile Crescent in Iraq, the Nile in Egypt, to Southern Turkiye and southward toward Ethiopia. It is indeed simply a fable and will not materialize, but it is held before the more ignorant in the Israeli public as a favored outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n

What exactly is in Bibi\u2019s chart that shows his current messianic bent? The birth time for his chart is disputed, but as it turns out we don\u2019t need a birth time to see what is influencing his current behavior. His noon chart for the end of October with transits and directions is below (bigger<\/a><\/span>):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Netanyahu has a particular midpoint in his chart that was strongly activated by transits and directions on October 7th<\/sup> and which was still in effect at the end of October (shown by the green lines), the Mars=Mercury\/Neptune midpoint. It has the following indications:<\/span><\/p>\n

Mar=Mer\/Nep<\/strong>: \u201cThinking with a purpose, great powers of imagination (the disposition of a genius). – The realization of plans or inventions, acting according to deliberation and experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no doubt he has been a very cagey and astute politician, seeing he is now into his 3rd<\/sup> term as Israeli PM. But in October events started to go awry for him and for his coalition as a result, starting with the solar arc of the Sun and Venus coming within a degree of orb of the midpoint in December of 2022, around the time he was reelected. That combination of planets in the natal midpoint structure can be problematic, though, as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

Mer=Mars\/Nep<\/strong>: \u201cThoughtlessness, nervous weakness (in consequence of drugs or misuse of energy), weakness of mind, sensitive nerves, (a receptive mind). Many plans without a chance of realization<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Nep=Mer\/Mars<\/strong>: \u201cThe pursuit of fantastic plans<\/strong>, speaking without acting, not keeping of promises<\/strong>. – Hopeless plans, the tendency to harm others through falsehood or underhanded behaviour<\/strong>, the process of undermining another person’s position.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Those are combinations found in the charts of conmen, liars, hopeless dreamers and sociopaths. They are also found in the charts of brilliant creative artists when the person is well adjusted, but they can still be left open to deceit and underhandedness. Then, we compare Bibi\u2019s natal midpoint setup when activated by the Sun and Venus:<\/span><\/p>\n

Sun=Mars\/Mer\/Nep<\/strong>: \u201cSensitiveness, receptiveness, a rich imagination, intellectual creativity. – Impressionability, dependence on moods. \u2013 The state of being deceived<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ven=Mars\/Mer\/Nep<\/strong>: \u201cRapturous imaginings<\/strong>, expecting too much of love, strong attractive powers of short duration, a strong fluid-like emanation<\/strong>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But there is more. His Sun and Venus are in a natal semisquare anyway, and Venus squares Saturn, an unforgiving combination. Thus we see a \u2018hard triangle\u2019 with the Sun at the apex in Bibi\u2019s natal chart. It is also a midpoint combination:<\/span><\/p>\n

Sun=Ven\/Sat<\/strong>: \u201cUnsatisfied desire in love, inhibitions in sex-expression, an unhealthy expression of the sex-urge, weak powers of procreation. – A lonely life, separation in love or marriage. – Organic troubles.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But wait, there is more. We note from the chart the Sun also forms a midpoint with Uranus and Pluto \u2013 our \u2018revolution midpoint\u2019. It carries the following probable manifestations, positive and negative:<\/span><\/p>\n

+ The attainment of great objectives by an immense application of effort, the bringing of new things into being, the creation of new conditions of living.<\/span><\/p>\n

– Acts of violence, upsets, subversive activities, putting the gun to someone’s head, the enforcement of decisions, an accident<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bibi would have hoped for the positives, but instead he is reaping and displaying the negatives. This war he provoked has its basis in his own self-deception and sense of aggrandizement and impunity, thinking whatever happened he has always had the US<\/a><\/span> to pull him out of trouble. He once stated the US was easily maneuverable<\/a><\/span>, to \u2018move in the right direction\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it just so happens that Uranus\/Pluto midpoint by direction is now within orb of Bibi\u2019s Mer\/Nep midpoint. It will increase his instability. Not only is he pointing the guns at the Palestinians, but he now has a figurative gun to his own head (perhaps even literally. He and Zelenskyy have some parallels) if his bid for a final solution to the \u2018Palestinian problem\u2019, as he calls it, goes against him, which it seems to be doing. Hence, we have his fiery and eschatological rhetoric since the start of Al-Aqsa Flood. In doing so, he has relied on an old prophecy from Isaiah, as follows<\/a><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe shall realize the prophecy of Isaiah — \u2018there will no longer be stealing at your borders, and your gates will be of glory.\u2019 Together we will fight. Together we will win,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

He paraphrased the original verse, from Isaiah 60:18. This is called cherry-picking scripture to suit your political purposes, something for which the Christian evangelical Bible-thumpers in the US are also famous (guilty). The original verse is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cViolence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, the original verse can be interpreted in several ways, from the mundane to the esoteric, the more esoteric interpretation being that once humanity achieves liberation and enlightenment (Salvation), peace shall reign on Earth and praises to the Divine in all shall be the gateway to liberation and enlightenment, for example. It is a very mystical verse. Returning to mundane realities and events, actually there is another prophecy for Israel by another Israelite prophet, one more respected, name of Jeremiah, as follows<\/a><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,<\/span><\/a> because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/a> They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal\u2014something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.<\/span><\/a> So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter [just south of Jerusalem<\/a><\/span>].<\/span><\/a> And in this place I will ruin\u00a0the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Apparently Bibi didn\u2019t much care for that prophecy and decided upon Isaiah\u2019s. What he didn\u2019t reckon, though, is he had sealed his and his nation\u2019s fate in so doing, because the prophecy of Isaiah as he meant it calls for genocide \u2013 the blood of the innocents. In invoking Isaiah to rally the troops and the Zionist populace, he has also provoked the wrath of the Arab and wider Islamic world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just who is Benjamin Netanyahu, anyway? His father, Warsaw-born Benzion Netanyahu<\/a><\/span> (n\u00e9 Mileikowsky; 1910\u20132012), was a historian specializing in the Jewish Golden age of Spain. Netanyahu’s paternal grandfather, Nathan Mileikowsky, was a rabbi and Zionist writer. So from that, we know Bibi was raised in the Zionist mindset<\/a><\/span>, notable from the following, from his father:<\/span><\/p>\n

“The two state solution doesn’t exist,” Netanyahu snr said. ”There are no two people here. There is a Jewish people and an Arab population \u2026 there is no Palestinian people, so you don’t create a state for an imaginary nation. They only call themselves people in order to fight the Jews.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Like father, like son. Bibi claims ancestry from Vilna Gaon<\/a><\/span>, though there is no record of it. He either did a bit of political invention on that one or he needs to find another genealogist. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (ret.) in a recent interview<\/a><\/span> called Bibi \u2018Der F\u00fchrer\u2019, further stating Netanyahu is the most draconian leader Israel has had in its short history. If we compare the Nazi and hardline Zionist ideologies and actions it would appear the Colonel is pretty much on the mark:<\/span><\/p>\n