At the end of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unhinged rant at the UN, he recited a seemingly obscure Bible verse. But it’s actually a dog whistle for genocide.
The context for the phrase is crucial. Transposed to the Israel of today, Netanyahu is telling his followers: they must go all the way in the annihilation of today’s Amalek. Anything short of that would be to reject the word of God.
The speech itself was a potpourri of lies and incitement, vacillating between condemnations of Zohran Mamdani and Hassan Piker to recounting Israel’s standard October 7 atrocity propaganda and shamelessly repeating the line about Israel having the “most moral army in the world.”
But then, the Israeli Prime Minister chose to end his speech with a seemingly obscure verse from the Bible: “Nezah Israel lo yeshaker,” or “the eternity of Israel will not falter.” The line is sometimes translated as “the eternal one of Israel shall not lie.”
The phrase, which comes from Samuel I, 15:29, relates to the genocide of Amalek, or the Amalekites, the bitter enemy of the Israelites. It’s a biblical reference that Netanyahu has applied numerous times to modern-day Palestinians, most infamously at the start of the Gaza genocide.
King Saul was admonished by the prophet Samuel for failing to completely eradicate the Amalekites. Saul had spared their king Agag and “the best of the sheep and cattle,” which the Israelites “were unwilling to destroy completely.” According to the Bible, this level of annihilation was insufficient and betrayed King Saul’s supposed weakness. That is why the Prophet Samuel admonished the biblical king
Saul sought to defend his actions, but Samuel delivered an uncompromising message:
“You have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you as king over Israel!”
Saul asked for forgiveness, but Samuel delivered the unrepentant message:
“The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to one of your neighbors — to one better than you. He who is the Eternal One of Israel shall not lie or change his mind; for he is not a human being, that he should change his mind.”
Pos just flying through Canada, UK, France airspace like its nothing.
Guys I’m starting to think Israel is evil
For anyone wondering… it’s Samuel 15.
1Samuel said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord. 2Thus says the Lord of hosts: I will punish the Amalekites for what they did in opposing the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt. 3 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.”
4So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand soldiers of Judah. 5Saul came to the city of the Amalekites and lay in wait in the valley. ^6 ^Saul said to the Kenites, “Go! Leave! Withdraw from among the Amalekites, or I will destroy you with them, for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites withdrew from the Amalekites. ^7 ^Saul defeated the Amalekites, from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt. 8 He took King Agag of the Amalekites alive but utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 9 Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the cattle and of the fatted calves and the lambs, and all that was valuable and would not utterly destroy them; all that was despised and worthless they utterly destroyed.
It should be noted that the offense for which genocide was necessary was that the Israelites told themselves the Amalekites opposed them coming out of Egypt. (The exodus didn’t actually happen.)…. Hundreds of years prior to Saul.
Which, raises the question: when does it fucking end?
religion before nuclear weapons was a good adaptation, it made people passionate fighters and prolific reproducers.
now with nuclear weapons, religion is clearly mal adaptive. (see Israeli ‘Samson Option’)
it ends when non religious people stop having children.
let the spawn of these morons deal with the consequences.
I am agnostic and I am glad my kids wont have to deal with this shit stain species (the planet and individuals are all right) but when humans get into groups they become something else. George Carlin was right.
It wont end with running out of Palestinians, thats for sure. Itll be their other neighbors next who are “amalek” and thus need to be killed to be genocided. This will only end when they are met with force. Its the only way to deal with zionists.
It’s kinda funny to they didn’t genocide the Egyptians and the Pharaoh but instead the people of the land land they moved to.
Manifest destiny.
That’s because they were never sctually enslabed in Egypt. There may have been a few refugees that came up out of Egypt and that became the narrative for everyone.
They had little direct interaction with Egypt where they were directly neighbors with the Amaleks (and everyone else…)
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Oh yeah? Well, how do you explain all the slabs in Egypt then, huh? huh?
Slabery sounds kind of cute.
When the general populace is either gullible enough or pretend to be gullible enough to take symbolic language literally. I mean I did, both as a believer and an atheist, then I finally got over the social lies and myself and started digging deep because superficially, it’s senseless af, other than justifying political and business agendas.
When the world ends it
It will never end
Technically I did miss it but I kinda assumed that he would incite genocide.
I will not listen to Satan’s clown.
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I mean, in all honesty, that doesn’t narrow it down THAT much…
For Netanyahu and his ghouls the whole world is Amalek
yep, I think most people dont see that when they are done with Palestine they wont just stop and become peaceful people.
“War Criminal from Philly plays a show for his domestic audience”
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