"Remember Amalek"
PM Netanyahu, Oct 28, 2023, invoking the biblical nation Israelites are commanded to erase totally.
What it signals
To a secular audience it sounds like scripture; to the intended audience it references a command of total annihilation — 'man and woman, infant and suckling.' Also cited in the ICJ proceedings.
How to answer
Explain the reference plainly and let readers sit with what invoking it over Gaza means. Note that Israeli scholars and rabbis objected to exactly this usage at the time.