It's a weird nitpick about 'blotting out the memory' of another society being much nicer and not at all genocidal compared to the 'spare no one' of 1 Samuel, an

It's a weird nitpick about 'blotting out the memory' of another society being much nicer and not at all genocidal compared to the 'spare no one' of 1 Samuel, and Rosenberg spends a lot of words to avoid describing how Netanyahu's speech was perceived by his constituents. At the time half of jewish israelis said outright in polls that they supported genocidal actions by the israeli state (p. 5 https://en.idi.org.il/media/21835/war-in-gaza-public-opinion-survey-2-data.pdf https://en.idi.org.il/media/21835/war-in-gaza-public-opinion...).