In the unending horror of Gaza, there are two significant developments. One is Arab countries – Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt – calling for Hamas to disband and play no further part in the governing of Palestine, the first time they have done so.
The other, inside Israel is the rising number of serving and retired senior army officers who are turning against Benjamin Netanyahu’s war. One said “I think the main reason for a prolonged war in Gaza is political expediency.” Eran Etzion, a former deputy head of Israel’s national security council, was even blunter. “By now it has long been clear to most Israelis that the main reason the Gaza campaign lingers on is because of Netanyahu’s political, personal and judicial interests, and he needs the war to go on in order to sustain and even enhance his grip on power.”
Lt Gen Eyal Zamir, the IDF’s chief of staff, is said to have argued that there is little more to be gained by continuing the campaign.
Ehud Olmert, a former prime minister (2006 -2009), has described Netanyahu’s plan for a ‘humanitarian city’ in Rafah as a concentration camp for Palestinians and that mass forced displacement of people into the camp would be ethnic cleansing. He added that anger at Israel over Gaza war is not all down to antisemitism. Israeli human rights lawyers and scholars have described the plan as a blueprint for crimes against humanity and some have warned that if implemented, “under certain conditions it could amount to the crime of genocide”.
Hamas, if the start date of 14 December 1987 is sound, then its demise (at least in its present form) could be two years off in 2027 when the Solar Arc Pluto is conjunct the natal Sun and SA Mars is conjunct the natal Saturn. That suggests they won’t go quietly or easily into submission or withdrawal. But when they do go it will be a total annihilation.
Across the IDF chart, and the Netanyahu relationship with their commander and with the IDF, there are increasing ruptures from this August onwards, worsening through November and April 2026. The IDF chart, 26 May 1948, and BN’s relationship with senior brass look increasingly agitated after mid 2026 into 2027.
The Israel/Netanyahu relationship chart will jolt, jangle and suffer shocks from now onwards through this winter. There is nothing outstanding either his own chart or his recent term chart to indicate major changes any time soon.
One outcome of the past two years in Gaza is a new wave of radicalization. Fundamentalist groups are on a recruitment drive. Inside Israel/Gaza, terrorist networks are replacing dead Hamas fighters at a rate of five to one. A British security source told Reuters that the Gaza war is “likely to become the biggest recruiter for Islamist militants since 2003”. The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism warned that such conditions are “active incubators for the next generation of extremist operatives”.
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