the state of israel, in apocalyptic context, is to viewed in energy context..the state is being used by the western portion of the energy beast that rises up out of the sea as a guarddog for the arabian oil..post soviet union energy oligarch money out of euroside russia has done wickedly thru pricefixing and that petro capital is using the state of israel as a lightning rod for energy guzzling authoritarianism that is always the response to wars and rumors of wars...