What did Netanyahu Say about Amalek?

Damien Mackey has a piece on Academia, you may need an account and logging in to it to read it:

Netanyahu likes to recall Amalek
By Damien Mackey
https://www.academia.edu/164842664/Netanyahu_likes_to_recall_Amalek

Citing:

Rabbi Jill Jacobs —the head of T’ruah, a rabbinical human rights organziation—said that rabbis generally agree that Amalek no longer exists, and that references to it do not provide a morally acceptable justification for attacking anyone. “The overwhelming history of Jewish interpretation is to interpret it metaphorically,” Jacobs said, explaining that one common approach is to see it as a call to stamp out evil inclinations within ourselves.

I am a Christian.

As such I do not need to deny the literal interpretation to stay clear of incitations to massacre.

You see, to a Christian, such massacres were accepted exceptions during the Old Testament era. Next acceptable exception (yes, there will be one) will not be carried out by men living in their flesh, but by angels or by saints who get an advance in Resurrection:

And the armies that are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean
[Apocalypse (Revelation) 19:14]

This seems to indicate they are angels, not just "armies that are in heaven" but the white linen:

But Mary stood at the sepulchre without, weeping. Now as she was weeping, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre And she saw two angels in white, sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been laid
[John 20:11-12]

It could also be the martyrs, or both together:

And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord (holy and true) dost thou not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth And white robes were given to every one of them one; and it was said to them, that they should rest for a little time, till their fellow servants, and their brethren, who are to be slain, even as they, should be filled up
[Apocalypse (Revelation) 6:9-11]

There is a clear indication that no single nation will be licitly eradicated:

Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
[Matthew 28:19]

The bronze age and early iron age were cruel times overall, so it makes sense that God made exceptional authorizations for cruelties during that time. Since God was born, died and rose, those times are gone, up to when Antichrist brings them back, and that time, it will be killed men or angels who take up the authorized cruelty, not men on earth.

If Netanyahu and the Israeli far right knew this, and you can add Fatah and Hamas to the bunch, the Holy Land might look less like Pharaonic Egypt.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Ember Wednesday of Lent
25.II.2026