Amalek

[am-uh-lek]

noun

Bible.

1. the son of Eliphaz and grandson of Esau.

2. a nomadic tribe or nation descended from Amalek and hostile to Israel.

Example Sentences

Netanyahu is also accused of incitement by comparing the Gaza war to the story of the Jewish fight against an enemy known as Amalek.

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In the bible God tells the Jewish people to eliminate all the Amalek men, women and children, as well as their possessions and their animals.

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One example was the biblical reference Netanyahu used when Israel sent troops into Gaza, comparing Hamas to Amalek.

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When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.

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When Netanyahu invokes Amalek, biblical enemy of the Israelites, he is doing so not as a rabbi or a scholar, but as prime minister of a country with an army that is waging war.

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