Pensée juive sur Les Psaumes 83:5

In the crisis that the Land of Israel is [at present] passing through, Providence is again testing us. ‎It ‎is fitting that we openly state that this matter does not just involve Israel’s political future. The ‎evil ‎intentions of the Arabs are not only directed against our national independence but against ‎the ‎continued existence of the Jewish presence in Israel. They aspire to exterminate (God forbid) ‎the ‎‎Yishuv — men, women, children, infants, sheep, and cattle (cf: I Samuel 15:3). At a ‎meeting ‎of Mizrachi (the Religious Zionists of America), I repeated, in the name of my father (of ‎blessed ‎memory), that the notion of “the Lord will have war against Amalek from generation ‎to ‎generation” (Exodus 17:16) is not confined to a certain race, but includes a necessary attack ‎against ‎any nation or group infused with mad hatred that directs its enmity against the community ‎of ‎Israel. When a nation emblazons on its standard, “Come, let us cut them off from being a nation ‎so ‎that the name of Israel shall no longer be remembered” (Psalms 83:5), it becomes Amalek.²³ In ‎the ‎‎1930’s and 1940’s the Nazis, with Hitler at their helm, filled this role. In this most recent period ‎they ‎were the Amalekites, the representatives of insane hate. Today, the throngs of Nasser and ‎the ‎Mufti have taken their place. If we are again silent, I do not know how we will be judged ‎before ‎God. Do not rely on the justice of the “liberal world.” Those pious liberals were alive fifteen ‎years ‎ago and witnessed the destruction of millions of people with equanimity and did not lift a ‎finger. ‎They are liable to observe, God forbid, the repetition of the bloodbath and not lose a ‎night’s ‎sleep.‎