Beware Netanyahu Israel Can Be Destroyed In Replay Of Biblical History

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IN biblical times, the Israelites could depend on divine help to conquer and seize territories belonging to ancient people like the Philistines.
Based on what the Bible narrates, they occupied a special place in biblical history because they were described as the chosen people of God.
Today, the Israelis are under the illusion that they are still under divine protection and that they could continue with their murderous campaign against the modern people that goes by the name of Palestinians.
Perhaps, Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu takes the Holy Bible too much to heart where it described how God had, in many instances, paved the way for his ancestors to occupy land that rightfully belonged to other ancient people.
The Bible also tells us how the Israelites, small in numbers, fought and subdued more powerful tribes or nations, grabbed their land and, in many instances, killed them all—innocent men, women and children.
They showed no mercy in their relentless campaigns of what could be described as ethnic cleansing, which today we call genocide.
Now, Netanyahu sees in all these biblical events as a continuation of the current war in Gaza in which more than 65,000 Palestinians have been killed.
But Netanyahu must not take for granted that the God of Israel is on his side as he wages a brutal campaign in a biblical land.
Thousands of innocent lives were unnecessarily cut short and many thousands more are languishing under the hideous shadow of famine. Is Netanyahu stone-deaf to the pitiable cry for help?
Granted, Israel had to retaliate when its own citizens were massacred senselessly. But that does not mean that Israel must commit a greater crime against humanity with its savage acts against the civilian population.
One wonders whether God had appeared to him in a dream instructing him to invade that strip of land to make Israel greater.
Or did one of the modern-day prophets in Jerusalem came rushing to his office with this message: “Bibi, Bibi, God tells me to tell you that you can proceed with your plans to expand the borders of your country.”
In biblical times, God would give words of encouragement to the Israelites to attack their enemies with the guarantee that victory would be theirs.
Many times the Israeli kings would enter the Temple—the abode of God—to consult and seek permission to unleash their military (mis)adventures.
Today, this new “king” Netanyahu seemed to have obtained “permission” from God through reading of the Bible to justify the onslaught on Gaza.
Perhaps, Netanyahu had highlighted all the biblical verses that spoke favourably about Israel and that gave him the justification to unleash the carnage in Gaza.
For Netanyahu, the Holy Book has become his military guidebook in his battle against the Palestinians. He listens to nobody, not even to the United Nations.
Or perhaps he went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and prayed for divine intervention and assumed that he had been given the green light to bomb Gaza to smithereens by merely touching those ancient wall in the belief that he is in the presence of God.
But “King Bibi” must realise that the Lord God of Israel had also punished his ancestors for disobeying God’s laws.
In those days, the Israelites had committed many sins like worshipping false gods for which they were severely punished: their Protector withdrew His shield and caused outside nations to attack them and even sacked Jerusalem.
In these modern times, Israel had committed another mortal sin by spilling innocent blood on the killing fields of Gaza. It is unlikely that God had sanctioned these atrocious crimes by communicating directly with the prime minister of Israel.
Beware, Netanyahu, biblical history can repeat itself and Israel will suddenly find itself surrounded by more powerful armies of other nations.
At this critical turn of events, Israel will then realise that it had angered the Divine Being and, this time, the punishment will see the chosen people probably banished and scattered to become slaves forever in foreign countries.
And in a biblical re-enactment, you, Mr Netanyahu, will be captured, stripped naked, chained, your eyes plucked out, and you will be paraded down the streets of Ankara, or Cairo, or Riyadh, or Kabul, or Jakarta or in any of the capital cities of the Muslim world.
Your people will never return to their homeland because Israel will no longer exist on the map of the world.
Phlip Rodrigues is a retired journalist.
The views expressed are solely of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of  MMKtT.
- Focus Malaysia.

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