Amalekites

Posted on June 24th, 2004 by mike

Some settler leaders see in the Palestinians the modern-day incarnation of the Amalekites, a mysterious Canaanite tribe that the Bible calls Israels eternal enemy. In the Book of Exodus, the Amalekites attacked the Children of Israel on their journey to the land of Israel. For this sin, God damned the Amalekites, commanding the Jews to wage a holy war to exterminate them. This is perhaps the most widely ignored command in the Bible. The rabbis who shaped Judaism could barely bring themselves to endorse the death penalty for murder, much less endorse genocide, and they ruled that the Amalekites no longer existed. But Moshe Feiglin, the Likud activist, told me, The Arabs engage in typical Amalek behavior. I cant prove this genetically, but this is the behavior of Amalek. When I asked Benzi Lieberman, the chairman of the council of settlementsthe umbrella group of all settlements in the West Bank and Gazaif he thought the Amalekites existed today, he said, The Palestinians are Amalek! Lieberman went on, We will destroy them. We wont kill them all. But we will destroy their ability to think as a nation. We will destroy Palestinian nationalism.

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