Israel’s Netanyahu, in Major Speech on the War, Invokes the Memory of What the Amalekites Did When the Israelites Left Egypt: ‘We Remember, and We Are Fighting’
‘There are moments in which a nation faces two possibilities,’ the premier says, ‘To do or to die.’
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Netanyahu told the nation Saturday night that the military has opened a “second stage” in the war against Hamas by sending ground forces into Gaza and expanding attacks from the ground, air and sea.
Casting the war as a fight for his country’s very survival, he warned that the assault would intensify ahead of a broad ground invasion into the territory. Mr. Netanyahu, the Israeli press reported, quoted the biblical command to remember what the Amalekites did to the Israelites after the Exodus from Egypt. “We remember and we are fighting.”
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