I REFER to the letter from Grant Frazer (Oct 31) where he refers to the “near-criminal” activities of Netanyahu. I would take issue with that “near”.
Netanyahu gave a speech to the Israeli public which has been picked up by, among others, Owen Jones and Novara Media, in which he makes a chilling reference to the Amalekites. This is a Biblical reference, where 1 Samuel chapter 15 verse 3 says: “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.”
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If this is not a call to genocide, I don’t know what is, and the Israeli leadership are quite open about it. Yet our political “leaders” continue to give unstinting support to this criminal regime.
Robert Moffat
Penicuik
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