Discussion on Biblical Justifications in Conflict

Because that's the thing about Amalek,

when you fight it, you can't fight it like you would

other nations.

And the prophet tells him, "Do not spare him." And the meaning

operationally is to strike every man, from the adult to the

nursing infant.

Verses I find impossible to accept at all. To kill babies.

Rabbi Azor talks specifically about the conflict in Gaza

and explains the biblical rationale behind the brutality.

I think that's the simple understanding, it seems to me.

That's the simple understanding. In other words, when you have pity on

the cruel

and allow evil to continue existing in the world,

you yourself become cruel

to the merciful and unfortunate. What will the merciful do when you've left them with

all the Amalekites?

In the end, they hurt good people.