Purim and the Jewish response to terror

Jewish World Review ^ | March 4, 2015 | Rabbi Yonason Goldson

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Pogroms. Genocide. Jihad.

These are the devices our enemies have directed against us throughout the ages, for no other reason than because we are Jews. Yet for all that, the commitment to mercy and justice that defines us as a people and sets us apart from the other nations of the earth ensures that we would never seek the destruction of another people simply because of who they are.

Or wouldn't we?

You shall erase the memory of Amolek from beneath the heavens. < snip >

In short, Amolek introduced the world to the tactics of terrorism, launching a suicide campaign against the defenseless, against the tired and the weary, just as their ideological descendants would later blow themselves up to murder women and children, waging brutal physical and psychological war upon a civilian population — not for clearly defined political gain, but to spread chaos and the moral confusion of disorder. < snip >

For those who live and die for the sake of terror, only one course of action exists to preserve the society that makes peace and justice possible: to erase their memory from beneath the heavens.

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Haman, the Persian antisemitist who sought to use the government to exterminate Jews, was a descendant of Agag, who centuries ago King Saul failed to decimate according to the LORD's command to him. Thus, today, we are still at least saddled with the Agag mindset of Hamas, of ISIS, of Al-Qaeda, a suicidal, defiant, oppositional hate of anything Jewish or derived from Moses (including the Christian basis of the United States).

If this is what Israel should do, what should we do if we find our country infested with "Amalekites"?

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Then God better get to it.

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In this, the LORD tells one/Israel/us what must be done, but the objects of His care have to DO it.

Esther had to use her resources to get Haman exposed and hung from his own scaffold.

The US and allies had to go in and exterminate Hitler and Tojo and their pals.

What are WE going to do now about those who have infested our country?