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Yasser Arafat was called "the Amalek and Hitler of our generation" by 200 rabbis. [105] Many in the Gush Emunim movement see Arabs as the "Amalek of today". [106] One reason includes the belief that Amalek is any nation that prevents Jews from settling in the Land of Israel, which includes the Palestinians. [107]
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
Many [neutrality is disputed] scholars interpret the book of Joshua as referring to what would now be considered genocide. [1] When the Israelites arrive in the Promised Land, they are commanded to annihilate "the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites" who already lived there, to avoid being tempted into idolatry. [2]
Serious debate exists between Jewish scholars about both whether Amalek still exists and whether the Jewish people are still called by God to destroy it, but rhetorical association between it and ...
Articles relating to Amalek, a nation described in the Hebrew Bible as a staunch enemy of the Israelites. The name "Amalek" can refer to the nation's founder, a grandson of Esau ; his descendants, the Amalekites ; or the territories of Amalek, which they inhabited.
The "Fruit of the Righteous" or "Pri Tzaddik" on the weekly portion Nasso, connects Gog uMagog with Amalek. In this work from Rabbi Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin it can be read in chapter 15:2: "And after all of this, there still will be war of Gog uMagog upon the Messiah son of Yoseph , for Gog uMagog is the seed of Amalek, and Amalek corresponds ...
A well known Midrashic explanation of the term relates it to King Agag of the Amalekites whereby it is viewed as meaning either a literal descendant of Agag or a symbolic term for an antisemite, due to the Amalekites being a perennial enemy to the Israelites. [citation needed] [3]
Wadi Feiran was an oasis, which would explain the battle with the Amalekites in terms of a struggle for control of water sources. [5] Another proposed location for Rephidim is in northwestern Saudi Arabia north of the town of al-Bad, the ancient city of Midian. Some researchers suggest that Mount Sinai was not in the Sinai Peninsula, but in ...