-Marcion is usually regarded as a heretic, and Masonic & New Age theology borrow heavily from him. He's not exactly a reputable authority.
-The Palestinians have a lot of Abrahamic genes, & many are descendants of the Jewish people. The rest of the bloodline, & the that of the Arabs, is from Abraham via Ishmael & the Keturahites (genealogy in Judges, I think). God promises both Hagar and Abraham that Ishmael will become a great nation. The Israelis can't exterminate them, since God's covenant cannot fail.
Amalek was one of Esau's grandsons (per Genesis 36:12 in the King James Version). Throughout the Old Testament the Lord referred to Esau as Edom. The kingdom of darkness overlords passed the spirit of Edom onto the tribe of Ashkenaz so that they exhibited the same characteristics as the Edomites, which had to do with attributes such as unbridled corruption, exploitation of everyone possible, unprovoked aggression toward other tribes and nations, and Satanism as the underlying religious force driving them and giving them power.
The tribe of Ashkenaz later became known as Khazars. They were Gentiles who wanted to be Jews, so they took on Judaism as their religion, and they took on Jewish names and customs, and they gave Hebrew names to their towns and cities. In 1948 they stole some Palestinian land and called it Israel.
Just FYI, because you didn't cover it in your article here, biblically speaking, the Amalekites were a clan of people descended in part from the biblical Nephilim ("giants").
Specifically, in Genesis 36:11-12, we have this:
"The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. (Timnah was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.) These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife."
So we learn that Timnah was a concubine of Eliphaz (who was Esau’s son) whose own mother was Adah. And if one goes back to Genesis 36:2, one also finds that Adah was the daughter of Elon the Hittite. [P.S. An Elon who wasn't Musk].
According to Genesis 36:20-22 (a few verses later), Timnah was a Horite, one of the native Canaanitic population of Edom. And from Deuteronomy 2:10-12 and 20-23, we also know that the Horites were defeated and displaced by the Edomites. And the Horites are listed in those passages in Deuteronomy with other people groups that were definitely "clans of giants". So Esau’s line has a child by one of these women, and that child is Amalek.
So this is what Bibi is attempting to use as motivation for his modern-day attempts at ethnic cleansing. What wonderful pseudoscholarship.
For a good handling of biblical Amalek (much of the above material being derived from it), see especially this podcast, starting at ~4:30 to skip the preliminaries:
That Netanyahu would equate Hamas and, by extension, the innocent Palestinians with the descendants of Amalek, is so far removed from the truth as to border on delusional. It truly boggles the mind! I can only compare it to as if during the Troubles in Northern Ireland the UK PM, professing belief in some fringe cult of the British-Israel variant identified the IRA and, thus, all the innocent Irish to be descendants of Canaan and co-opting God's orders in the Bible to Israel millennia ago marked them for annihilation all to serve his own political agenda.
Indeed as Christ said, "...all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword" (Matthew 26:52) for human nature is what it is that without the gospel of Christ and God's Holy Spirit to change hearts both individually and collectively war and death will never end.
Incidentally I believe this January 15, 2009 speech by the late UK politician Sir Gerald Kaufman speaks to us today (www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWe8gRolEJk).
Can you address the substance of the argument instead of dismissing it? I've read Judiasim's Strange Gods. I do not understand how you fail to see the clear parallels of the OT with the Talmud. The Talmud is the logical outgrowth of the OT. The NT is a radical departure. Do you deny that Yahweah commissions genocide? Yes or no? Is genocide right or wrong?
Two points:
-Marcion is usually regarded as a heretic, and Masonic & New Age theology borrow heavily from him. He's not exactly a reputable authority.
-The Palestinians have a lot of Abrahamic genes, & many are descendants of the Jewish people. The rest of the bloodline, & the that of the Arabs, is from Abraham via Ishmael & the Keturahites (genealogy in Judges, I think). God promises both Hagar and Abraham that Ishmael will become a great nation. The Israelis can't exterminate them, since God's covenant cannot fail.
Amalek was one of Esau's grandsons (per Genesis 36:12 in the King James Version). Throughout the Old Testament the Lord referred to Esau as Edom. The kingdom of darkness overlords passed the spirit of Edom onto the tribe of Ashkenaz so that they exhibited the same characteristics as the Edomites, which had to do with attributes such as unbridled corruption, exploitation of everyone possible, unprovoked aggression toward other tribes and nations, and Satanism as the underlying religious force driving them and giving them power.
The tribe of Ashkenaz later became known as Khazars. They were Gentiles who wanted to be Jews, so they took on Judaism as their religion, and they took on Jewish names and customs, and they gave Hebrew names to their towns and cities. In 1948 they stole some Palestinian land and called it Israel.
Just FYI, because you didn't cover it in your article here, biblically speaking, the Amalekites were a clan of people descended in part from the biblical Nephilim ("giants").
Specifically, in Genesis 36:11-12, we have this:
"The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. (Timnah was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.) These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife."
So we learn that Timnah was a concubine of Eliphaz (who was Esau’s son) whose own mother was Adah. And if one goes back to Genesis 36:2, one also finds that Adah was the daughter of Elon the Hittite. [P.S. An Elon who wasn't Musk].
According to Genesis 36:20-22 (a few verses later), Timnah was a Horite, one of the native Canaanitic population of Edom. And from Deuteronomy 2:10-12 and 20-23, we also know that the Horites were defeated and displaced by the Edomites. And the Horites are listed in those passages in Deuteronomy with other people groups that were definitely "clans of giants". So Esau’s line has a child by one of these women, and that child is Amalek.
So this is what Bibi is attempting to use as motivation for his modern-day attempts at ethnic cleansing. What wonderful pseudoscholarship.
For a good handling of biblical Amalek (much of the above material being derived from it), see especially this podcast, starting at ~4:30 to skip the preliminaries:
https://nakedbiblepodcast.com/podcast/naked-bible-283-exodus-17-part-2/
And for more on the biblical-historical "conquest of Caanan" and its reasons, see this additional scholarly article from Heiser:
https://drmsh.com/the-giant-clans-and-the-conquest/
That Netanyahu would equate Hamas and, by extension, the innocent Palestinians with the descendants of Amalek, is so far removed from the truth as to border on delusional. It truly boggles the mind! I can only compare it to as if during the Troubles in Northern Ireland the UK PM, professing belief in some fringe cult of the British-Israel variant identified the IRA and, thus, all the innocent Irish to be descendants of Canaan and co-opting God's orders in the Bible to Israel millennia ago marked them for annihilation all to serve his own political agenda.
Indeed as Christ said, "...all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword" (Matthew 26:52) for human nature is what it is that without the gospel of Christ and God's Holy Spirit to change hearts both individually and collectively war and death will never end.
Incidentally I believe this January 15, 2009 speech by the late UK politician Sir Gerald Kaufman speaks to us today (www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWe8gRolEJk).
Can you address the substance of the argument instead of dismissing it? I've read Judiasim's Strange Gods. I do not understand how you fail to see the clear parallels of the OT with the Talmud. The Talmud is the logical outgrowth of the OT. The NT is a radical departure. Do you deny that Yahweah commissions genocide? Yes or no? Is genocide right or wrong?