World Plummets into Eschatological Frenzy: Unraveling the Implications

The eschatological fervor of the Palestine crisis is reaching a deafening peak. Officials worldwide are dropping their masks, and inadvertently revealing the Biblical strain of the conflict.

At every turn, political figures now soak their proclamations in Biblical reference and allegory. The foremost of which was Netanyahu, who has now invoked an assortment of Biblical prophecies as dogwhistles to stir his people into an eschatological frenzy.

Here he not only invokes the prophecy of Isaiah, but frames the conflict as that of “light” versus “darkness” and good versus evil, painting the Palestinians as the Children of Darkness to be vanquished by the Chosen Ones (ER: c’mon, you couldn’t make this up):

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The Isaiah prophecy he appears to speak of is the following:

Isaiah 60:18 ESV

Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
devastation or destruction within your borders;
you shall call your walls Salvation,
and your gates Praise.

But then, more controversially, he invoked the Biblical blood-enemy of Amalek:

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One commentator’s interpretation:

◾️ Netanyahu keeps referring to biblical prophecies on his press conferences:

– ” You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible, and we do remember and we are fighting. Our heroes who fight in Gaza continue a dynasty of heroes that goes back 3,000 years in history – from Joshua to the heroes of 1948, from the Six Day War to the Yom Kippur War and all other wars.”

◾️The words about Amalek are taken from the 1st Book of Samuel: “Thus says the Lord of hosts: I have remembered what Amalek did to Israel, how he opposed him on the way when he came out of Egypt” (15:2). The Lord ordered King Saul to destroy the enemy and all his people: “Now go and defeat Amalek and destroy all that he has; and give him no mercy; but put to death both husband and wife; from youth to infant; from ox to sheep; from camel to donkey” (15:3).

◾️ Netanyahu feels himself a new Messiah with the divine right of exterminating all enemies of the chosen people… A genocidal maniac.

This is indeed the threatening mien with which many Arab observers are interpreting his words:

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We have to say it – does anybody notice the line below his neck? Is this normal for him? 

🇮🇱 In his speech tonight, Netanyahu quoted the bible saying: “You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible”

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“Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman,… pic.twitter.com/czCmCCniXd

— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) October 29, 2023

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And another:

◾️ Israel has finally reached reactionary peak, a religious ethno-state with a bellicose and messianic leader that is carrying the liquidation of the Gaza ghetto:

– …is a test for all of humanity, is a struggle between the forces of evil… and the axis of freedom and progress. We are the people of the light, they are the people of darkness and light should triumph over darkness. Now my role is to lead all Israelis to an overpowering victory… We shall realise the prophecy of Isaiah… together we will win.

◾️The prophecy of Isaiah, to which Netanyahu refers, is a prophecy of Israel’s victory over its enemies. It is often used by Israelis to justify their dominance over the Palestinians.

Of course, to some extent, we shouldn’t be surprised. Israel, after all, is one of the world’s only states founded almost exclusively on ‘Biblical Right’—which means that it’s only natural that much of its ensuing policy—whether right or wrong—will be rooted in Biblical determination.

So it’s not the sheer act of Biblical invocation itself that is troubling, but rather the implication that Netanyahu appears to conceive of himself as a messianic figure leading his nation to an eschatological fulfillment, a sort of Judgment Day or Rapture. Naturally, it’s incredibly dangerous for a nation led by a self-styled end-times messiah to be leashing the rest of the somnambulant world along toward WW3.

And who are those dew-eyed sleep-walkers? The very establishment figures of the West, particularly the evangelical U.S., though there are even some outlier surprises. For instance, many were shocked to see the Hindu Vivek Ramaswamy bizarrely and sycophantically parroting the Biblical ‘chosen ones’ premise, couched in its ‘divine nation’ conceits:

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He further angered followers with the sudden bellicose tone-switch in his latest speech, making people wonder what it is about establishment figures that invariably leads them to so officiously melt like putty in Israel’s hands:

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Not so shocking was new House Speaker Mike Johnson, immediately pivoting into full Christian Zionist mode:

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Ben Shapiro approves of Mike Johnson as the Speaker of the House after he made support for Israel his first priority. pic.twitter.com/WChYMYid2j

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) October 26, 2023

The fact of the matter is, the American political elite are hardcore Zionists because many of them come from the Southern Baptist and evangelical strain of Christianity which preaches devotion to Israel on account of perceived Biblical rapport.

Independent journalist Lee Fang has trailblazed coverage of this aspect during the current crisis. Here he interviews members of U.S. Congress, one of which states outright that he takes Biblical scripture on Israel very “literally”—those who bless Israel will themselves be blessed:

In particular, Fang pushes the angle that many of these people do believe in the Rapture, where a final ‘Armageddon’ battle will be fought over Jerusalem, which will prefigure the Second Coming of Christ.

You can see more of his coverage here:

From the above:

Pastor John Hagee, joined by Israeli diplomats and lawmakers, cited End Times prophecy to call for military support for Israel, U.S. strikes on Iran.

In fact, Fang points out how “Israel’s UN ambassador Gilad Erdan and other Israeli diplomats flew to Texas to hold a Christian right prayer rally w/ Pastor John Hagee, [who] cites the prophet Isaiah — a dog whistle for End Times — & calls on evangelicals to help lobby the US gov to back Israel as a religious war.”

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