An Evil Demigod in the White House

Can there be any doubt now about Netanyahu’s intentions and that of Hamas? While Hamas has been advocating for the complete eradication of Israel, Netanyahu’s Likud Party has been calling for the annexation of virtually all Palestinian territory since its inception and pointing to its Bible for justification.

Netanyahu is vowing to open a full assault on Rafah ‘with or without’ hostage deal even as mediators renew efforts to secure a truce ahead of the invasion of the city where more than 1 million people are sheltering.

As Netanyahu said at the beginning of the current war, “Remember Amalek!” He was referencing 1 Samuel 15: 2-3.

1 Samuel 15:2  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:3  Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Don’t get me wrong. The underlying issue is Netanyahu’s Likud Party’s founding doctrine and their interpretation of the term, “Zionism.” The meaning was, and is, the acquisition of all Palestinian land from the river to the sea.

Israel began forcing out the Palestinians from their generational homes in the new Israel beginning in 1948 when England, with the blessings of all predominantly Christian Western nations, took most of Palestine away from the Palestinians and created the new Israel. Upon the formation of the Likud Party, they penned their platform:

The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel)

a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.

b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a “Palestinian State,” jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace.

The map shown below shows the boundaries from two different sections of the Bible which the Likud Party aspires to annex.

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” —Blaise Pascal