When theology becomes strategy

When theology becomes strategy

On the eve of Passover, Israel’s Prime Minister did something more dangerous than issue a wartime threat. He clothed military violence in sacred language. Standing before the cameras, Benjamin Netanyahu described Israel’s campaign through the imagery of the biblical plagues, mapping specific acts of war onto the Exodus narrative in which catastrophe is visited upon Egypt to break Pharaoh’s will. The final plague, he suggested with unmistakable s…

Netanyahu casts Iran war as modern Exodus

In a Passover eve address steeped in biblical imagery, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday framed Israel’s campaign against Iran and its proxies through the lens of the biblical Exodus, declaring that Israel had dealt its enemies “ten blows” echoing the Ten Plagues. Netanyahu listed strikes against Hamas, Hezbollah, Bashar Assad’s fallen regime in Syria, Palestinian terror group...