When Netanyahu bragged, “I want everyone to know what’s written in our books… I will chase my enemies and will not return until I annihilate them,” he was not speaking in metaphors. He was echoing the war code embedded in the Torah and enforced in the Talmud — texts that sanctify extermination, colonisation, and terror as divine commandments.
The distorted Torah’s doctrine of ḥērem leaves no ambiguity: “Do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them…” (Deuteronomy 20:16). “Show them no mercy” (Deut. 7:2). “They exterminated men and women, young and old” (Joshua 6:21). And in 1 Samuel 15:3, Saul is ordered to wipe out Amalek — “men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.” Numbers 31 commands the slaughter of boys and non-virgin women, sparing only virgin girls for enslavement. These are not spiritual allegories; they are blueprints for genocide and sexual slavery — the very crimes the Zionist state is accused of today in Gaza.
I. The War Code of Ḥērem: “Do Not Leave Alive Anything That Breathes”
In the distorted Torah, one principle dominates the “law of war”: ḥērem — the destruction of enemies, sometimes translated as “the ban” or “devotion to destruction.”
- Deuteronomy 20:16–18:
“Do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them — the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites — as the LORD your God has commanded you.”
This is not spirituality — it is an instruction manual for genocide. The text reads like a war crime before the term even existed. And yet, it is paraded today by Zionist leaders as divine license to burn Gaza, flatten Jenin, and starve children in Rafah. Netanyahu’s smirk is not modern politics; it is Deuteronomy revived with F-35 jets.
- Deuteronomy 7:1–2:
“When the LORD your God brings you into the land… you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.” - Joshua 6:21:
“They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it — men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.” - 1 Samuel 15:3:
“Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.” - Numbers 31:17–18:
“Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.”
Here lies the grotesque reality — sanctioned child-killing, paired with sexual enslavement of virgins. Strip away the religious veneer and what remains is human trafficking justified by scripture. Is it any wonder that when settlers torch olive groves and soldiers bomb refugee camps, they echo this same script of “purge and possess”?
These are not symbolic parables. They are explicit war instructions: genocide, mass slaughter, sexual enslavement.
II. From Verse to Law: How Rabbis Codified Annihilation
The Talmud and later rabbinic authorities did not erase these commands — they systematised them:
- Sanhedrin 20b lists three national obligations upon entering the land: appoint a king, annihilate Amalek, and build the Temple.
The Talmud does not soften the blow; it crystallises it into law. War, extermination, and state power are listed not as options but as duties. When Israel’s Chief Rabbinate blesses military campaigns, they are not innovating — they are applying Sanhedrin 20b. The so-called “Jewish state” is not a democracy in spirit; it is a Talmudic war camp dressed in modern institutions.
- Maimonides (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings and Wars 5:1) distinguishes between milḥemet mitzvah (obligatory war, including annihilating Amalek) and milḥemet reshut (discretionary wars of expansion).
What in other traditions would be buried as a shameful relic is here enshrined as eternal. This is why extremist rabbis can stand in illegal settlements and call Palestinians Amalek without rebuke. The law has prepared the ground for perpetual bloodshed, sanctified not by morality but by the cold bureaucracy of halakha.
- Mishnah Sotah 8 regulates who is exempt from battle, presenting war not as a moral failure but a sacred duty.
Thus, the “command to destroy” became a legal category within Jewish jurisprudence, binding for generations.
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“Wipe out Amalek” is not just a verse — it is a halakhic obligation preserved in rabbinic law.
This is not a metaphor; it is incitement. When settlers shout “Amalek!” as they firebomb Palestinian homes, they are not improvising — they are obeying scripture weaponised by state-paid rabbis. The Zionist project thrives on this recycling of ancient extermination orders, turning Amalek into a modern code word for Palestinians, a green light for murder.
III. The Amalek Trope: Palestinians Cast as Scriptural Enemies
In today’s Zionist discourse, the most dangerous biblical archetype is Amalek. For centuries, rabbis debated who Amalek’s descendants were. In the modern settler movement, the label is readily applied to Palestinians and Arabs.
- Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Safed, has openly called for merciless war, framing Palestinians as Amalek.
- Settler leaders have been quoted as shouting “The Palestinians are Amalek!” — a license, in their view, for extermination.
- Israeli politicians and military rabbis have distributed booklets to soldiers during wars in Gaza, citing Amalek as justification for slaughter without mercy.
The “Amalek doctrine” thus migrates from scripture to the battlefield, turning Palestinians into targets of biblical genocide.
IV. Greater Israel: From Text to Expansionist Ideology
Netanyahu’s boast sits within a larger framework: the dream of Greater Israel, rooted in scriptural conquest.
- The Oded Yinon Plan (1982) explicitly called for fragmenting Arab states into sectarian mini-states to secure Zionist supremacy.
- Modern far-right figures like Avi Lipkin fantasise about borders stretching “from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates” and even capturing Mecca and Medina.
Strip away the pious language, and this is naked colonial lust, disguised as prophecy. The Zionist imagination is not confined to Palestine; it salivates over the Arabian Peninsula itself. The so-called “ally of the West” dreams of marching into Islam’s holiest sanctuaries, waving a Torah that reads more like a military doctrine than divine revelation.
- Books such as “Return to Mecca” openly plot biblical expansion into the heart of the Muslim world.
In this worldview, the Torah and Talmud are not sacred scriptures but blueprints for endless war and domination.
V. Arab Complicity: Feeding the Beast
The scandal grows worse when Arab regimes collude:
- Egypt deepens trade with Israel while issuing token condemnations.
- Gulf states open their airspace to Israeli flights even as Gaza is bombed.
- Normalisation deals (Camp David, Oslo, Abraham Accords) are presented as peace but serve as fuel for Israel’s expansion.
Meanwhile, Arab leaders jail protesters and silence solidarity while Israel waves the Torah in one hand and drops bombs with the other.
VI. Why This Matters
When Netanyahu says “I will pursue my enemies and annihilate them”, he is not inventing rhetoric. He is anchoring today’s massacres in ancient, violent texts still taught, quoted, and sanctified.
He is telling the world the truth: this is not about security or peace. It is about implementing the ancient script of extermination. Gaza is Jericho. Palestinians are Amalek. Arab capitals are “Canaanite cities.” This is why bombs fall with biblical fury. And unless the Muslim world wakes up, the next targets will not be metaphors — they will be Mecca and Medina.
The danger is not only in the bombs Israel drops but in the scriptures it brandishes as justification.
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“No Gaza, no Doha, no Tunis — not even Mecca and Medina — are beyond reach when scripture is turned into a war plan.”
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References (live sources)
- Sefaria: Deut 20:16–18; Deut 7; Josh 6:21–25; 1 Sam 15; Num 31:17–18 (Heb/Eng primary texts).
- Sanhedrin 20b; Mishneh Torah: Kings & Wars (halakhic codification).
- Academic/encyclopedic entries on ḥērem and its ethics.
- Modern rhetoric equating Palestinians with Amalek (journalism & documentation).
Disclaimer (read carefully)
This investigation scrutinises texts and their political weaponisation. It does not indict certain people as a whole, nor does it call for harm to anyone. Many Jewish scholars and communities reject literalist readings, condemn supremacism, and advocate human rights. Our focus is on how specific passages and legal traditions are cited by extremists and officials to normalise violence today. Citations are provided so readers can verify every claim in primary sources.
