Even though Netanyahu is Jewish, he knows using (and in this case abusing) the Christian bible is a good way to keep support going among US evangelicals and the new Speaker of the House.
Sounds like he’s culturally appropriating American behaviour.
Can anybody translate the video?
There’s a voiceover.
The poster before has a point. The translation in the video is pretty damning, but there is no real way to know if the translation is truthful if all you have is that video and not the ability to understand the original.
They’re asking for a translation.
Ah! Nothing like millennia old scriptures to convince people that a genocide is necessary!
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It’s pretty awful in context.
And was meant to be taken literally.
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Be aware that Middle East Monitor is rated “Factual reporting: Mixed” and strongly biased as it sometime use poor sources and use loaded words.
La Croix published an alaysis of this Isaiah Prophecy quote (french). They found it’s a poor and/or convoluted reference, and that article do not mention “Holy War” so this expression is most likely editorializing from the Middle East Monitor.
It’s really just a video of Netanyahu saying the words himself. It’s not interpreted or analysed by the website. Don’t see how that can be very biased.
I watched it a second time to be sure. While the voiceover doesn’t say “Holy War” he does cite religion and sounds like religious radicals dog-whistle.
There’s good reasons to be critical of Netanyahu government, but I’d still suggest seeking better sources.
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It may indeed be, I’m not familiar with Middle East Monitor, but Media Bias/Fact Check are themselves rather infamously biased towards the American right wing. For example, they list the New York Times as nearly as left-biased as their scale goes, despite that the Times has largely taken the Republican party line on a number of issues, such as queer rights (their deceptive coverage of trans rights has been a large part of the current moral panic, and has led to multiple open lettersof protest). The Times was even instrumental in elevating Trump to the presidency with their incredibly dubious decision to give Comey’s procedural memo front page placement and a misleading headline mere days before the election — a choice that Nate Silver has said was possibly deciding on the election. The Guardian is also listed as left-center despite even more extreme transphobic editorial decisions than even the Times.
Similarly, they list MSNBC as far-left, despite them having Republican-led shows and frequent Republican guests. I’ll definitely agree there’s some degree to which they’re on the left, but it’s pretty minor all told. The idea that they’re far left is just ridiculous, and one that only makes sense from the perspective of America’s right-wing culture.
At the same time, they list Wall Street Journal as mostly credible, something that just isn’t a serious take on media credibility.
(Edited to add: a lot of this comes down to the very strong bias in American media towards the “both sides” idea that if two sources disagree, the truth must be in the middle. That bias is especially clear in discussions of climate change, but it’s also prevalent in discussions of other political issues more generally.)
As usual, our Overton window is all that matters to people in the states. There’s some active debate about how much longer centralized media control in all legacy formats will mean the level of control the phrase implies, but until that shifts, Overton is staying put.
Nah, news organizations aren’t internet echo chamber.
I mean, if they write dozens of opinions a day, news organizations labeled center-left or even left-leaning have to go to the other side sometimes. If not, they’re just propaganda machines.
Even though Netanyahu is Jewish, he knows using (and in this case abusing) the Christian bible
He’s citing the Hebrew Bible.
There’s truly no shortage of uninformed takes on the Isreal Palestine situation.
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Not only is he citing the Hebrew Bible, it SAYS IN THE LINK THAT HE POSTED THAT HE’S CITING THE HEBREW BIBLE.
Seriously, kids these days, it’s like nobody goes to Vacation Bible School anymore
Lol this is a propaganda outlet
It’s Netanyahu speaking directly in a video. Not being interpreted or analysed by the outlet.
Then it must be easy to find a reliable source
I found a few sources:
-Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-goal-of-war-is-to-defeat-the-murderous-enemy-ensure-our-existence-in-our-land/ -Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amalek-and-jihad-israel-ground-invasion-gaza-c2cfaeb1 -Times of India: https://m.timesofindia.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-cites-amalek-theory-to-justify-gaza-killings/amp_articleshow/104802548.cms -TAZ: https://taz.de/Benjamin-Netanjahus-Kriegsrhetorik/!5964144/ -NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-hamas-war-gaza-attacks-hamas-idf-netanyahu-long-fight-rcna122651#rcrd23808 -MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/netanyahu-cites-amalek-theory-to-justify-gaza-killings/ar-AA1j2pvC
Google has a huge amount of hits on this topic. Seems pretty certain that he used a Nazi reference.
Thanks for completeness… what a crazy asshole
He can’t be held responsible for his failure to protect his people if they are in a constant state of war. How long before mideast instability drags us all back?
If he pulls out some old testament shit he’s good to go. The Israelites were told to destroy Jericho completely in the story I remember. Just change the name to Gaza and it works out great for him.
I was having a weird one today so I read through the book of Amos. It’s shockingly similar to the current situation.
Amos prophesied that Gaza would be destroyed, even genocided, as a reaction to crimes that included kidnapping entire communities. But that’s just an intro to a prophecy that Israel would be violently and mercilessly destroyed in response to a long list of their own crimes.
I’m not saying that Amos predicted the current situation, just that it’s sad how little we’ve improved in 2500 years.
Prophecies require explicit parameters. Anything else is ad-hoc and you can fit nearly anything to be a prophecy after the fact.
Funnily enough (not funny actually, considering the war crimes and all), the Old Testament says that the Jews/Isrealites will never get rid of other people living in the area due to not driving them out in their original conquest.
I do love a good irony. Only atheists actually read religious texts though.
Abrahamic religions always lead to genocide. It’s built into the very fabric of the religious traditions, the entire reason they existed to begin with was to justify the genocide of other tribes.
Cool so I guess ww3 will be a jihad. Cool cool.
Uh, they’ll get fuckin rocked like every time since the fall of the Ottomans.
One of the reasons all the Islamic fundie types get hard for a new Caliphate is there simply isn’t a Muslim nation that can defend itself against Western aggression, except possibly Turkey, and guess who they’re allied with?
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Samuel is in the Torah you dork.
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Your comment could be easily taken as antisemitic. Our only rule at Beehaw is to be(e) nice. Please, keep this in mind for the future. BTW, you are using that Psalm outside of its historical context and does not apply to modern religious Jews.
OP, do you know where the books of Moses in the old testament come from?
Exactly, it’s a copy of the Jewish Torah which Netanyahu quoted.
