How Israel’s Netanyahu weaponises religion in his war rhetoric
Speaking at a prominent Jewish conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in West Jerusalem in June, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined what he described as a shift in the country’s security doctrine.
During International Court of Justice hearings in January 2024, South African lawyer Tembeka Ngcukaitobi highlighted Netanyahu’s command to Israeli troops at the start of the war on Gaza to “remember what Amalek has done to you”.
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is among the many Israeli politicians who believe settlers are biblically entitled to the occupied West Bank, which they refer to by the biblical name of Judea and Samaria.
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