Ali Ataie – THIS Is Why Netanyahu Called Palestinians Amalek
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There's this idea in the Torah of something
called Amalek.
Right? Mhmm. So Amalek,
also known as the Amalekites, sometimes just called
Amalek. So according to the Torah, the first
group
to attack the Israelites, to oppose the Israelites
while they were in the wilderness
was this group called the Amalekites.
Mhmm. And the Amalekites,
they for some reason, they just they hate
the Bani Israelite. They hate the Israelites. They
want to kill them. They want to exterminate
them.
And so,
in in the Bible, you have these
in the Hebrew Bible, you have these commandments
coming from God apparently to the Israelites to
exterminate the Amalekites.
Okay. So for example, first Samuel chapter 15,
king Saul, the first king of Israel, was
told,
to,
to exterminate the Amalekites.
But Saul, he didn't do the job correctly
and he spared the Amalekite king whose name
was Agag.
And so Agag sort of fled I guess.
I mean later on he was killed,
but
apparently the Amalekites,
survived somehow.
And so,
in the book of Exodus,
there's a passage,
where God is the speaker, and God says
that from generation to generation,
midor midor in Hebrew,
from generation to generation, I will make war
on Amalek.
Mhmm. Right?
So
in other words, many rabbis, many orthodox rabbis
take this to mean,
that in every generation,
there there is some group,
that
embodies the spirit of Amalek Yeah. And must
be exterminated.
Mhmm. Right? So if there's that's probably the
closest thing you'll get to an idea of
an of an anti an antichrist,
that there's this there's going to be this
group of people,
that are going to always oppose Israel,
and and try to
basically
destroy Israel,
until the coming of the Messiah, and then
he will basically take them out.
So I understood this to be,
literal that
Amalek are people
that are wicked,
and we're supposed to fight the or the
Jew Jews are supposed to fight them physically.
Right? So
I'm talking to a young man. His name
is Rabbi Andrew Meyer. Mhmm. And he always
corrects me on this. He said, no. No.
No. No.
It's not that. It's it's metaphoric.
We don't kill.
The 10 commandments say you should not murder
or should not kill,
and
Amalek is evil in general.
Now I take this as, this is some
kind of modernism and metaphor. Right? Everything is
a metaphor,
and we know how we treat those types
of people in Islam. Right?
You really need to have conditions
set in place
regarding the language of the text
in order to deem something to be a
metaphor.
Because God and his prophets speak directly,
and there are no tricks and games in
the speech. I would like to ask you,
is what this young man is saying, is
that
a mainstream view or is it a minority
view, maybe a
sanitizing,
interpretation
for for Westerners. Yeah.
I don't I don't think that's I I
think it's a bit sanitizing. So so modern
traditional Jews,
tend to interpret these commandments against Amalek
on genealogical
grounds. So in other words, any and all
descendants of Amalek
must be killed
irrespective of their culture.
This is why when it comes to the
7 nations, we can say the Canaanites
broadly speaking,
there there is conversion the 7 nations that
are in, you know, from the river to
the sea, they can actually
convert to,
to become a Ben Noach, so in other
words, the 7 they can adopt the 7
Noah Hittig laws or they can actually convert
to Judaism,
but there's difference of opinion about the conversion
of an Amalekite.
There's a difference of opinion as to whether
he should be allowed to convert or not.
If not, then he should be killed. Yeah.
However,
many would argue
that it's just simply impossible to identify who
who is an Amalekite.
So in other in other words, this this
commandment simply cannot be fulfilled.
Right?
It's just impossible to tell who's an Amalekite.
Maimonides, he he limits the application
of this mitzvah to destroy Amalek,
to a Jewish king. He says only an
anointed Jewish king
to carry out this mitzvah.
Because the mitzvah is there,
it's it's not it's not Mansukh, the Jews
don't believe in Mansukh, they don't believe in
Nazkh.
So this commandment is there, it's sort of
just suspended,
but we need an anointed Jewish king, and
it seems like he's talking about the Messiah.
And other authorities say that
it will apply once again when the Messiah
comes and he's taken control of,
of the covenant land,
the Eretz Israel.
So so then so, yeah, the commandment is
there.
Now,
there is this idea also that, like I
said,
you know, scripture has different levels of meaning.
So,
the commandment to destroy Amalek is not abrogated,
it's still valid, but we don't know who
Amalek is,
but there's also this idea that
there's a there is a spiritual interpretation of
the text. So So even, like, the orthodox
will say that, you know, one must
strive to remove or to kill or destroy
the Amalek within.
Right? These sort of impulses that we have
Mhmm. That want us to rebel against God
and this type of thing.
But that's not all it means, and no
traditional authority would say that's all it means.
It's it's just the the the internal Amalek
and it's all this kind of botany stuff
and Yeah. No, no, the the commandment is
literal,
but it's suspended,
right? Now, the Zionist, they actually teach that
no Amalek
does not refer to any specific race,
but a mentality,
a mindset
that will continue perpetually.
So the Romans were Amalek and the Nazis
were Amalek and Yeah. You know, e Iran
was Amalek and now they're saying, obviously, you
know what Bibi said. Yeah. This guy Yeah.
That the Palestinians,
you know, these They're Amalek. They're Amalek. We
have a duty. Remember what Amalek has done
to you. Remember our proud history of Joshua,
the son of Nun, and what he did,
and we know what he did. We he
went into Canaan and slaughtered, you know, at
least according to the book of Joshua,
slaughtered the indigenous,
people of of Palestine and women and children
indiscriminately.
Mhmm. So that's that's how these sort of
Zionist
interpret these verses about, Amalek.
Benzi Lieberman in 2004,
he he's the director
the former director of Israel Land Authority. He
said, quote, the Palestinians are Amalek. We will
destroy them.