Is Israel Following the Torah Regarding Genocide?

As soon as the United Nations, in 1991, annulled its Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism, a decision made by the General Assembly in 1975, without changing the skin of Zionism, the Arab Committee for Combating Zionism and Racism (formed to support that resolution) pointed out at that time that this step came as a result of frantic efforts made by the United States, and as a consequence of the evolving unipolar world system following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It indicated that one of its most significant implications lies in placing the Israeli occupation state and its racism and terrorism above the UN, and above international covenants and laws. It was also noted on the same occasion that when the UN approved the aforementioned resolution, it justified it with several significant international decisions that affirmed the racism of Zionism. However, when it made the decision to annul it, it sufficed with a single line crafted by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, which literally stated: "The General Assembly decides to reject the judgment contained in its Resolution 3379."

In a previous article, the author reminded that this Arab Committee for Combating Zionism and Racism issued a political document in March 1994, which recalled that the Zionist occupation state is a colonial settlement project based on fanaticism rooted in supernatural beliefs that are excessively superstitious and racially supremacist. It stated that Zionism draws its ideological roots from the legacy of the "chosen people," and that the Zionist project is organically linked to American hegemony projects, aiming to exhaust the Arabs and impose frustration and underdevelopment on their generations, keeping them in a state of fragmentation and domination, thus obstructing progress, renaissance, and unity in the Arab homeland.

As for the racism of Zionism, it is primarily derived from two interconnected sources: the first being the nature of the colonial Zionist project based on the element of replacement, and the second being Jewish religious references, particularly the Torah, which continues to serve as a basis for fatwas justifying killing, expulsion, looting, and pillaging. There are many examples regarding the second source. Recently, multiple lights have been shed not only on the exacerbation of religious devotion within the occupation state's society but also on the strengthening of theocratic (from theocracy - religious institution) dimensions in both the political and military levels, as demonstrated, for example, by the events of several military leaders distributing "combat orders" to troops within the context of the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, indicating that this military battle is part of a religious war aimed at defeating an "enemy that denies the gods of Israel."

As for the "legacy of the chosen people," it directly refers to what later became known as Nazi racial purity. This reference is drawn from a radical Jewish scholar who relied on a book by Rabbi Joachim Prinz titled "Wir Juden" (We Jews), published in 1934, to conclude that it contains a laudatory comparison between Zionism and the theory of Nazi racial purity.

If the Torah long served as the fundamental reference for the Jewish imagination, it has also become the most prominent reference for life after the establishment of the Jewish state in Palestine. There are those who emphasize the intersection of current events with what is mentioned in some texts of the Torah. One of the latest mentions in this regard is the assertion of an Israeli university professor (Moishe Granot) that the Torah has mandated, since the dawn of history, the commitment of genocide not against just one specific people but against several peoples.

Among the texts indicating this mandate for genocide is found in Chapter 20 of the Book of Deuteronomy in verses 16 and 17: "And as for the cities of these peoples which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall not allow any breathing thing to remain alive; but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded you." The justification for the extermination of all these peoples is provided in verse 18, as follows: "Lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the Lord your God."