The mind-numbing stories from Gaza of a starving, traumatized population in mid winter, described by an Oxfam director as “apocalyptic” with no help in sight from an international community seemingly incapable of taking action is a sobering indictment of the times. The Israeli liberal newspaper Haaretz, now sanctioned by the Netanyahu government, relates stories from IDF soldiers about civilians, even children, being treated as combatants. ‘The regime of arbitrary, even competitive killing, was described as “the wild west on steroids”. Hospitals and refugee camps are being bombed, aid convoys are being blocked. The independent Famine Review Committee (FRC), warned there is a “strong likelihood that famine is imminent in areas” of the northern Gaza Strip with warnings that “starvation, malnutrition, and excess mortality due to malnutrition and disease, are rapidly increasing.” in north Gaza.
Gaza stays in mind where other atrocities like the Sudan, Myanamar, even Tibet fade, partly because they are further away and because they seem beyond help. But Gaza is a western-created problem instigated initially by the USA and Britain.
The incoming Trump administration is unlikely to improve matters for the Palestinians given son-in-law Jared Kushner’s suggestions earlier this year about moving Gaza residents into the desert and possibly into Egypt and salivating over the prospect of Gaza’s ‘very valuable’ seafront property. And there being no constructive steps taken to preventing West Bank Israeli settlers expanding their territory illegally and driving Palestinians out of their homes.
The Palestine Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988 Algiers, with its Mars at one degree Aries square Saturn at zero Capricorn conjunct Uranus – is being heavily undermined by tr Neptune Saturn in hard aspect from early 2025 through till 2027; with the Solar Arc Sun conjunct the Saturn and square Mars between 2025 and 2027. Disappointments and setbacks of considerable magnitude.
Hamas, largely destroyed, though the bitterness will breed problems down the line, 14 December 1987, has the Solar Arc Mars conjunct the Sun exactly now – with the SA Mars Pluto moving across the Hamas Sun Saturn for the next three/four years for a dead-halt, scary, totally trapped phase.
Hezbollah, 16 February 1985, has its Mars at 10 degrees Aries in line of the recent October Solar Eclipse and the late March 2025 one putting them in a combative mood. Tr Uranus opposition Saturn and square the Hezbollah Sun all through 2025 suggests a tumultuous year. Though they may be pushing confidently ahead nonetheless in patches with tr Pluto conjunct their Jupiter. 2027/28 see their Solar Arc Sun conjunct their Mars and SA Pluto conjunct their Uranus which will be an almighty clash and turnaround so nothing settling soon on that front.
The same goes for Israel which is facing years of challenge, stress and jeopardy ahead. Tr Uranus is now for the final time in a disruptive conjunction to the Israel 8th house Taurus Sun picking up a couple of days ago and running till mid March 2025, followed by tr Uranus square the Israel 10th house Mars late April to mid May 2025, the latter bringing a shock, sudden explosive turn of events with resulting insecurity and perhaps over hasty reactions.
Through 2026/27 tr Pluto will square the Israel 10th house Leo Moon putting pressure on the ruling classes from a mutinous population. The Solar Arc Mars square Pluto late 2025/26 will be blocked, high-risk, with no obvious way forward. That is mirrored in the Solar Arc Midheaven conjunct Neptune creating indecision and confusion about future direction around 2026/27. The Solar Arc Neptune is opposition Uranus for a highly-strung 2025 and then in a dented-hopes conjunction to Jupiter by 2028. Tr Neptune Saturn square the Venus will make for international unpopularity and financial repercussions in 2026/27. The Bank of Israel is showing panic and losses through 2025 and beyond.
Then into the early 2030s both tr Pluto and the Solar Arc Sun will start to exert pressure on the Israel 10th house Pluto and then Saturn. Nothing that looks like peace anytime soon.
The Israel/USA chart was never as seamlessly well matched as events might suggest with a fractious, differing-agendas composite Sun Uranus square Saturn plus an over-hopeful Jupiter Neptune conjunction. That latter will be undermined by tr Neptune Saturn opposition the Jupiter Neptune in 20925 and more in 2026 so some of the shine may come off.
Trump is fairly well-chained together with Israel with a composite Saturn Pluto conjunction in the relationship chart. There will be a few cool moments in March/April 2025 with major jolt and perhaps eruption in May 2025 and again January to mid March 2026. That could be a difference of opinion or a joint reaction to an outside disruption.
The most intractable conflict of the 20th Century seems destined to drag on.
The Dalai Lama XIV evidently once remarked, “If a problem is fixable, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying”.
Normally I would agree but in this instance it is deeply depressing. A Palestinian was quoted recently as saying only the leaders wanted to fight – the ordinary people just wanted to get on with their lives. Much the same in Northern Ireland and it partly took the mothers standing up to say enough before peace talks got under way – with substantial input from the USA. Much the same as the end of the Russia invasion of Afghanistan when a Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers stood up and made their voices heard.
My brief reading of wiki said that we (Britain) passed our responsibility on to the United league which then became united nations….so I’m wondering why the UN was never able to solve it..though I vaguely remember Mr Arafat in the 70s not being keen. So is it one of those unsolvable problems..will it come back to bite the UN which I think you’ve said is due for some challenging times.
I get very confused with Gaza, as that area as a long historical association with being unsettled. In fact many country’s including Turkey’s own tribal rulers and consequent wars, have seen much bloodshed and manipulation of many people. According to the League of Nations Wikki, it was set up 1920 , with Britain, France and Japan among its founding members. The UN – after the United Nations was created in 1946 – sanctioned the change in that area in 1947, with Israel returning to where is once occupied land. America and Britain may have proposed it, yet it was not entirely their decision – the UN sanctioned it. In fact, I think I read a post on this site, stating that Egypt occupied/ oversaw Gaza. Just checked, it did, from 1959-1967. Palestinian supporters March often in this country, yet how many really know the convoluted history of that area. That land has been immersed in many wars. If we believe in Astrology, that the planets coordinate with pieces of land’s position on Earth and influence them. In some respects it is the chicken and the egg enigma. That is not to underestimate real suffering, however, can anyone resolve this? Three thousand years of historical tales, hand down by word of mouth, tablets and writing record Judaism, if not linger, many Rulers thinking has caused terror and much pain, for all those who have lived on that part of the our planet
Apologies for the mistakes – fighting one of the four bug/viruses.
An excellent if depressing analysis although I could live without the usual refrain of it being Britain’s fault. I sometimes wonder if everything bad in the world is down to us and, if it is, we are certainly paying a price for past mistakes. The younger generation are growing up to hate this country and to rubbish its very many achievements over the years. It seems that the great and the not-so-good all hate the UK, but I’m never quite sure why. Perhaps you could look at this subject one day?
Yes, Gaza is a quagmire of conflict and I can quite believe that the people want simply to live their lives. I am not particularly pro-Israel although I envy their can-do spirit and refusal to be crushed and wish we could import some of it here. But what I loathe is what the pro-Palestine mobs have brought to the streets of our country, most especially our Capital. I believe they do themselves a disservice and harden hearts against their cause through this behaviour. One must also ask why it is they are unable to get support from fellow Arab countries who are vocal in their persecution of Israel but not so ready to come forward with a helping hand. You only have to look at how King Hussein nearly lost his throne when the Palestinians mounted a coup in Jordan to understand why Palestinians are largely unwelcome anywhere.
I mention this because it is fashionable to be pro-Palestine as are nearly all media commentators, and the balance needs redressing.
It is an absolute tragedy with no end in sight but it is not possible to see it through a lens in which Britain bears no blame. I understand that it is hard to deal with your own country’s flaws – and at times we can be overly self-critical – but maybe we were due a reckoning, a period of reflection. Perhaps there is national karma at work. Maybe the astrology indicates that. I’m 61 and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict was never covered when I was at school. The first I knew of it was the Munich Olympic attacks. Are people just better informed now? I have found it hard to cast off mildly pro-Israel views, perhaps because for many years I didn’t really understand the incredibly complex history. But it seems clear there are now truly hateful figures in the current right-wing Govt there and some serious crimes against humanity being enacted. That does not mean there are not equally scary figures holding sway in the likes of Iran and my (fairly ignorant) reading of the situation is that the West’s overwhelming support for Israel is that it provides something of a bulwark against Iran. I think you find more support for the Palestinian cause on social media but my opinion is that the Western mainstream media is still staunchly behind Israel. I love reading this site but it is depressing that so often the astrology suggests more of the same, rather than offering some hope in the darkness.
I agree there is too much focus on the sins of empire, too little on the balancing virtues and none on other superpowers of times gone by who all acted much the same way.
I must admit if I get a trolling comment in that mentions ‘empire’ in relation to the UK and then usually ‘military industrial complex, psychopathic, narcissistic’ in a kind of mantra word soup it goes straight in the bin.
But it is still true that the Brits and French acted badly at the end of WW1, carving up the Middle East. The Brits made a complete botch of the mandate of Palestine and scrambled out in disarray. After WW11 there should have been international policing put in when Israel was set up but US President Truman was otherwise occupied.
Like everyone else I was pro-Israel and immensely sympathetic but as time went on and I read more and more it became less obvious there was a good guy and a bad guy in the conflict. At the moment there are no good guys.
What is so difficult to accept is that there may be/probably is not any solution.
From a previous post on James Cameron’s book. See Israel – the roots of ‘a sick and sorrowful conflict’ ++ pawns in the Power Game ++ echoes of Sabra Shatila Massacre 10th October 2023
‘The aspirations of the Jews and Arabs are irreconcilable.’
‘By now it is abundantly clear that no compromise any mortal man can devise is going to reconcile the Arabs to the legal existence of a Jewish state in the Middle East.’
Truman wrote in 1947/48. ‘The Jews are so emotional and the Arabs so difficult to talk with that it is impossible to get anything done.’
Cameron: ‘The stage is now ready for the culmination of the story, of a sick and sorrowful conflict, not between right and wrong, but between two forms of right and, maybe two forms of wrong.’