But Mr. Netanyahu, I warn you, in The Name of Allah. We warn you. These words were given to Belshazzar, the one that succeeded Nebuchadnezzar: “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN” (“YOUR KINGDOM HAS BEEN WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE; IT HAS BEEN NUMBERED”). And it’s getting to the end of “Israel.”
–The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
“What Does Allah The Great Mahdi And The Great Messiah Have To Say About The War In The Middle East?” February 25, 2024
Besides waging a multi-front war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, the Zionist State of Israel is also facing an intense domestic conflict, including anti-government protests.
The Israelis are demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut a ceasefire deal that includes the release of remaining hostages taken captive during the Hamas-led incursion into illegal Jewish settlements on October 7, 2023.
When news broke on Sept. 2 that six hostages were found dead inside a tunnel shaft in Gaza, thousands of Israelis went to the streets of Tel Aviv and other areas donning Israeli flags and placards in Modern Hebrew and English demanding the prime minister take heed to their cries. But is Netanyahu listening?
“He pretends that he’s not listening, and he wants to come out as the strong leader that says I won’t be influenced by anybody or anything except what I think,” said Madea Benjamin, activist and co-founder of CODEPINK, a pro-peace and social justice organization.
“How can you be the leader of a country and not pay attention to half a million people in a small country coming out on the streets … to the families of hostages who are in the media day after day? I think he has to be influenced by this. But so far, we just don’t see the results,” she said.
Ms. Benjamin, who has been organizing protests for the Palestinian issue, told The Final Call that pressure is mounting on Mr. Netanyahu. However, she expressed disappointment with the Biden administration giving only “verbal questioning” of Netanyahu’s sincerity about a ceasefire, but not taking any actions.
With the internal and international pressure, she says, it’s a good time for Israel’s chief backer, America, to say enough is enough, ceasefire now or we’re cutting off the weapons and diplomatic cover at the UN.
“Those kinds of real actions, I think would be the tipping point. But unfortunately, we haven’t seen that yet,” reasoned Ms. Benjamin.
Critics assert the Israeli leader has ulterior motives for ignoring his streets and global opinion and keeping the war alive, even at the expense of hostages.
“There’s two things. One is his coalition would collapse. He’s made a pact with these ultra-right wing nationalist groups who are in his cabinet,” Ms. Benjamin suggests.
An example are hardliners Bezalel Yoel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister, and Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Both have openly threatened to pull out of the coalition government if Mr. Netanyahu agrees to a permanent ceasefire deal which would possibly end the government.
“The other is personal, that if there is indeed a ceasefire, and he loses his position, he will be facing all of these corruption charges that he is very concerned about,” added Ms. Benjamin.
That could mean the end of his political career, and possibly going to prison. “These are two very important elements in understanding why Netanyahu keeps changing the goalposts,” said Ms. Benjamin.
Events bear witness to Divine Warning
For nearly a year, ceasefire talks have started then stalled over Mr. Netanyahu’s changing conditions. Meanwhile, the death toll of the Palestinians exceeds 40,000 and continues to rise. By Final Call presstime the latest snag was Israel’s demand to keep its troops at the Philadelphi corridor between Israel, Egypt and Gaza.
As this drags on each day comes more destruction of Gaza and conditions where people cannot remain, and ultimately Israel could take over the Gaza Strip.
Recent warnings were given about Israel and the fate of Mr. Netanyahu by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the National Representative of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. Their words are relevant because both men warned what is happening in the East is a precursor to coming events in the West.
“I see the circumstances and events around the world,” said Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad, the National Assistant to Minister Farrakhan in a message called “The Evil Accidents of Time,” delivered Sept. 1 from Nation of Islam headquarters at Mosque Maryam in Chicago.
“They are witness to what Allah, the Great Mahdi and the Great Messiah gave to their servant, Minister Farrakhan, to say about the war in the Middle East,” he explained, referring to Minister Farrakhan’s Saviours’ Day 2024 message: “What Does Allah The Great Mahdi And The Great Messiah Have To Say About The War In The Middle East?” delivered Feb. 25.
“It’s big, because what you see over there, as he [Min. Farrakhan] told us in February, they’re planning for us right here,” stated Student Min. Ishmael Muhammad.
“You see how they have continued to do their evil, and it doesn’t matter if the nations of the Earth condemn it … if they’re taken to the international courts in Hague and charged with crimes against humanity. It’s not stopping them from the evil and the wickedness that they do,” Student Min. Ishmael Muhammad continued.
In February Minister Farrakhan addressed the plight of the Palestinians and what Israel was planning at length but gave specific insight about Israel and warnings to Mr. Netanyahu about his detrimental course of rulership.
“Mr. Netanyahu: There is a revolt against him now in Israel, and he may not be elected as prime minister in the future. I am saying this to him now … Because you are not going to live to see the vision that you have for Israel, to ‘conquer the whole Middle East,’ and you will be ‘the great [leader].’
No, no, no. You can pack that desire away, because you will never see what you envision. And you’re trying to beat the Palestinians up to put fear in the minds of the Muslims.
“Mr. Netanyahu sees a kingdom in his mind. But it’s not for you to have the reality of what you wish for. So, if you lose the election, and you might very well because the people are kind of angry with you!” said Minister Farrakhan.
Lifting “Belshazzar” from the scriptures, who succeeded the wicked Biblical ruler “Nebuchadnezzar,” the Minister said, “they call him your ‘son;’ because you’ve got some people right there with you that think just like you, they’re members of your war cabinet—they want Hamas liquidated, obliterated. And that’s the process that’s going on,” explained the Minister.
Despite international condemnation, sanctions, isolation, legal actions against wrongdoing, and serious domestic pressure among Israelis themselves, “evil persists,” explained Minister Ishmael Muhammad during his September 1 message.
A false mandate
This violence is possible because Israel has enjoyed impunity for decades and its killing and destruction continue. To understand Israel’s criminal conduct over the last year, one must understand the overall goal of the regime. Since Israel’s inception, the proponents of Zionism’s aim was for Jewish supremacy and control over the entire territory.
“It was land theft and imposed rulership to take over the land,” said Joseph Kohn, a spokesperson for the Neturei Karta International (NKI), an Orthodox Jewish group, that promotes traditional Judaism in opposition to Zionism.
“Of course, it didn’t happen in a peaceful way. The Zionists started doing it in the most brutal way to ethnically cleanse our Palestinian people,” he said.
Mr. Kohn told The Final Call that from the standpoint of the NKI, the existence of the State of Israel is wrong, and claims by some Zionists that their actions are according to Divine mandate, are false.
To make things confusing and more complicated, some religious people have added verses from the Torah into the conflict, he said. They misquote things from the Talmud and the Torah to justify the crimes they are committing, and to legitimize Zionism as a concept, to claim rights to the land of Palestine in the name of the Torah.
“All of this is false. According to our belief, the authentic, original belief and the interpretations of the Torah, this is all false,” said Mr. Kohn. “We do not have any right to the land of Palestine. It belongs to the Palestinian people. We are not allowed, according to our Torah, to do all of this what we see now in Gaza,” he explained.
He acknowledged statements were made in the name of the Torah to justify what has happened. “It’s totally false, completely out of context, used to justify this mass murder,” he argued.
Israelis protesting in the streets fighting for a “ceasefire and hostage release” should not be conflated with demonstrators in the streets of world capitals demanding “permanent ceasefire” and “ending genocide.”
For many Israeli settlers, there is a disconnect from understanding the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, Israeli activist Yonatan Zeigen told Democracy Now in a Sept. 3 interview.
“It’s a blind spot of ours,” said Mr. Zeigen. His mother, Canadian-born peace activist Vivian Silver, 74, was killed in her home in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7. “When I come to the streets, I stand with the bloc against the occupation or the people who want to end the war,” he said.
At a Sept. 4 UN Security Council hearing about the six hostage deaths, Yuli Novak, Israeli human rights activist and executive director of B’Tselem, criticized her country’s government for prioritizing war over the return of hostages, leaving people feeling “angry, desperate and betrayed,” she said.
Ms. Novak argues Israel’s “criminal conduct” over the last 11 months was guided by the idea of promoting “Jewish supremacy and control.”
“Our government is cynically exploiting our collective trauma to violently advance its project of cementing Israel’s control over the entire land,” said Ms. Novak. “To do that, it is waging war on the entire Palestinian people, committing war crimes almost daily in Gaza. This has taken the form of expulsion, starvation, killing and destruction on an unprecedented scale. This goes beyond revenge,” she said.
Ms. Novak called for the UNSC to act on the International Court of Justice’s opinion on the illegality of Israel’s occupation and settlements, emphasizing the need for an immediate and permanent ceasefire to prevent regional escalation.
“Israel is seeking to impose a military solution to the conflict by disappearing a nation,” said the observer representative for Palestine. “Instead of ending the Nakba, Israel’s ‘fascist, extremist’ leaders have decided to seek its conclusion—‘Palestine with no Palestinians,’” he added.
On the situation in the West Bank, he said Israel advances its settler colonial agenda. “Violence by settlers and soldiers is spreading like wildfire to push people out of their homeland,” he said.
Noting an imminent General Assembly vote on a resolution demanding the end of this illegal occupation within a time frame, he urged Member States to remember all those either killed or left to endure torment when they make their decision: “You are either on the side of the arsonists or the firefighters—you cannot be on both,” he said.
