Israel, Deuteronomy and World War Three
A lawmaker from the religious Zionist wing of the coalition recently used the term “ir ha’nidachat,” or the beguiled city – an Old Testament injunction to destroy a city where most of the inhabitants have began worshipping idols and who must therefore be killed and the city flattened: “And it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again” (Deuteronomy 13:17). The lawmaker expressed the wish privately that this be done to at least some of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli tanks near the Gaza fence last Sunday.
Israeli Intelligence Ministry offered a plan for the “day after Hamas”: Push the people of Gaza into the Sinai desert.
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OSINT Shows U.S. Deploying More Arms and Troops to Israel, Cyprus and Jordan
Close to 80 U.S. military planes and dozens of leased civilian aircraft are hauling equipment, with massive arms airlift to Israel and Cyprus and fighter squadrons and special forces in Jordan
U.S. military cargo planes deliver armaments to Israel's Nevatim Airbase, last week.Credit: Israel Defense Ministry
If Jordan permits itself to be used this way it will show that its words to the press via Queen Rania and speeches and votes at the United Nations are empty words.
This military deployment isn’t only about the United States backing Israel in its genocide against Palestinians. It’s about waging war against Iran.