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Netanyahu Again Uses Genocidal Rhetoric And Compares Iranians To 'Amalek'.
Benjamin Netanyahu Is Using The Same Genocidal Rhetoric On Iran That He Did On
Gaza.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using the same genocidal rhetoric
towards Iranians as he did towards Palestinians in Gaza.
At the site of an Iranian missile attack in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu said,
“If this regime of terror obtains nuclear weapons, they will threaten all of
humanity. Therefore, we went out in order to remove that danger first and
foremost from ourselves, but we are acting here together with the United
States, in the name of and for the sake of all humanity,” adding, “We read in
this week’s Torah portion, ‘Remember what Amalek did to you.’ We remember, and
we act”.
By comparing Iranians to the Amalek, Benjamin Netanyahu is signalling to
genocidal hardline religious zealots in the IDF that Iranian civilians are fair
targets.
For context, the UN’s report on the Genocide in Gaza documented that Netanyahu
comparing the Palestinians to “Amalek” before the genocide in Gaza was seen as
a green light by the IDF to slaughter civilians in reference to the Hebrew
bible passage which states, “Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all
that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and
infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey”.
The UN report documented:
On 3 November 2023, Prime Minister Netanyahu published a letter to the Israeli
soldiers and commanders in the war, in which he wrote, “Remember what Amalek
did to you... This is a war between the sons of light and the sons of
darkness…We constantly remember the sights of the horrific massacre on that
Simchat Torah Shabbat, October 7, 2023.”
The descendants of Amalek, the Amalekites, were enemies of the Israelites in
the Hebrew bible. In the Book of Samuel, God tells the Israelites, ‘Now go and
attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but
kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’
The Commission notes that, in invoking Amalek in his speech, Netanyahu
strengthened the idea that Israel’s war in Gaza is akin to the holy war of
total annihilation commanded against the Amalekites.
This would be familiar to and compelling for the many thousands of Israeli
military personnel who are religious Zionists, especially for those in military
units whose personnel are wholly or predominantly ultra-orthodox. Indeed, such
sentiment was referred to by many following the statement of Netanyahu,
including the Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich and Israeli soldiers
who yelled and chanted direct references to Amalek as they launched attacks in
Gaza.
The report noted that, “The invocation of Amalek had particular resonance for
religious Zionist military personnel, of whom there are now many thousands in
the Israeli security forces.”
Indeed, religious members of the IDF often invoked the comparison of the
Palestinians to “Amalek” to justify killing Palestinians civilians and the
comparison was often used alongside the openly genocidal statement that there
are “no innocents” in Gaza.
South Africa’s report on Israel’s genocide in Gaza documented that the IDF
released “video of soldiers chanting that there are ‘no uninvolved citizens’ in
Gaza and that they will ‘wipe off the seed of Amalek’”.
The report also noted that Israeli, “Parliamentarians have stated ‘[w]e must
not forget that even the ‘innocent citizens’ — the cruel and monstrous people
from Gaza took an active part . . . there is no place for any humanitarian
gesture — the memory of Amalek must be protested’”.
Daniel Raab, an American sniper in the IDF, while boasting about killing
Palestinians civilians, said , “Gaza is like Sodom and those who live there are
similar to the Amalek and this population is really Amalek”.
Yet again, Netanyahu is comparing Iranians to the “Amalek” so members of the
IDF believe it is justified to “kill both man and woman, child” in an attempt
to justify the continuation of war crimes such as the American/Israeli strike
on a girls’ school in Iran that killed 175 children.
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