Isnotraeli PM Netanyahu insidiously referred to Palestinians as Amalekites, and quoted the Book of Deuteronomy, chapter 25, verse 17: “Remember what Amalek did to you”, which is followed by Yahweh’s command for the Israelites “to wipe out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens”. That was undeniably “a divine directive to obliterate an entire people”, “commandment to commit genocide”. [1]
There are many more directives, attributed to Yahweh, for Israelites to commit genocide elsewhere in the Torah also: Deuteronomy 7:1-5, Deuteronomy 20:10-18, Joshua 6:20-21, Joshua 11:15, 1 Samuel 15:3, etc.
Proof that OOP is an anarchist. [2]
Yes, there are verses in the Tanakh about the ancient Israelites engaging in massacres, but none of the 613 rules tells present day Jews to exterminate others. This is a major reason why the Haredim are resisting the draft.
Benjamin Netanyahu, like the Christian colonizers before him, is simply using scripture as a moral alibi for a war that he started. Blaming scripture excuses him from his misbehavior and overlooks the real causes behind Herzlianism’s extermination campaign.
Eloquently put.
Maya Rosen (who wrote article [1], which Jewish Currents published) described those verses in the scripture as "a divine directive to obliterate an entire people” & “commandment to commit genocide” (wordings are hers, not mine). Yet while reading the article I’m not getting the impression Rosen was letting Netanyahu & his ilk of genocidaires off the critical hook .