What criticism do you have for your respected side?

This article does a pretty good summary:

https://en.idi.org.il/articles/52716

....In post-biblical Jewish culture, the precept to wipe out the biblical tribe of Amalek was remote from the real world and deemed an obligation that was no longer in effect. . In practice, Jewish law is determined not only by the Bible and its commandments (“the written Torah”) but also- and mainly, by how they have been interpreted over the generations by the Sages (“the Oral Torah”). This is how Jewish tradition constantly adapts the ancient text to suit the needs, circumstances, and challenges of each age, while maintaining an unbroken and intact line of transmission from generation to generation and sustaining the text’s moral and ethical demands. The Bible remains the source of Jewish belief, history, and principles, but some of its precepts are no longer understood literally. When persons who are at home in Jewish culture hear the name “Amalek” they do not hear a call for annihilation, but only the echo of a villain who lived thousands of years ago, a foe who can no longer be identified today and has no physical descendants, but only ideological heirs.

For example, in the twelfth century, the greatest sage of Jewish history, Maimonides, wrote that although in principle the command to wipe out Amalek continues to be valid from generation to generation, the target of that precept, the Amalekite people, “have vanished” from the world and the stage of history, “their remnants scattered and mixed in with the other nations, until none of them remains.”[2] In other words, the impossibility of identifying the descendants of Amalek effectively abrogates the precept to wipe out Amalek. Other traditional commentators defer fulfillment of the precept to the Messianic Era, a distant and unidentifiable future,[3] or abolish the commandment as incumbent on human beings and leave it to the exclusive responsibility of the deity[4]—a heavenly law rather than a human law—citing the verse in Exodus, “The Lord will be at war with Amalek from generation to generation.”[5] The war against evil is indeed an eternal war, but it is not a human task or affair and is waged by God alone. Another line taken by the commentators[6] turns the concrete biblical war against the people of Amalek into a battle against the concept of evil and violence represented by Amalek. Human beings do bear this responsibility, but it has nothing to do with killing and physical destruction.

...Every culture adopts ancient myths, for better or for worse. In Jewish culture, the biblical Amalek is a metaphor for iniquity and evil. Uttering the name “Amalek” is not a call for action, but rather-the expression of deep psychological shock in the face of pure evil. The word was whispered, with panic and fear, whenever Jews, weak and defenseless, were attacked throughout history. The terror inspired by Amalek’s spiritual descendants reigned in the ghettos and extermination camps of the Second World War, during the Holocaust. When contemporary political and military leaders describe murder, terrorism, and injustice, it is no wonder that “Amalek” is the term that comes to their mind.

The Misquoting of the Verse and its Context

The Application cites two occasions when Prime Minister Netanyahu made use of the verse, “Remember what Amalek did to you.”

In fact, with regard to the second occasion, the Application does not quote the verse actually spoken by the Prime Minister, which deals with historical memory, but instead—refers to a verse from a different book of the Bible—a one-time directive by a prophet to the king of Israel, some 3000 years ago, to show the Amalekites no mercy.

The quotation of the wrong verse and the attempt to interpret it as an instruction to commit genocide is misleading. It diverts attention from what Netanyahu actually said—a verse that prescribes later generations’ obligation to remember the attack on the people of Israel, more than three millennia ago.[8]

That verse fits the context of Netanyahu’s remark on October 28, when he was speaking about the bitter historical memory of the Jewish people, who have been persecuted in every generation. He continued: “We have always said, ‘Never Again.’ ‘Never Again’ is now.” This line was quoted by Margaritis Schinas, the vice-president of the European Commission, on November 5, 2023, when he published a statement about the increase in the number of antisemitic incidents in Europe: “Hate has no place in the European Union. … Never again is now.” References to Amalek provide a painful historical context to the Jewish people’s constant struggle for life and liberty, as Prime Minister Netanyahu wrote in the letter to the troops quoted in the Application: “The current battle against the Hamas murderers is another chapter in the story of our national resistance over the generations. … We are all the scions of a line of heroes who were not deterred and did not retreat—Joshua, Deborah, King David, Judah Maccabee.”

...As is apparent from the remarks by the Prime Minister and those of other senior officials about the historical precept to remember Amalek’s deeds, they are comparing the wickedness of Amalek to the “Hamas murderers” and not to the Palestinian people. It is a protest against vile criminal acts, not against an ethnic group, not against a national identity, and not against the residents of a specific region.

The conceptual leap the Application makes from the mythical, cultural, and literary use of metaphors and symbols to the current situation and operation is incoherent and is unjustifiable.

....The biblical Amalekites became the classic foe of the Israelites and Jewish people because they were seen as a merciless enemy that exploited every weakness and adhered to no moral principles in combat...It was seen as the polar antithesis of the biblical Israelites, who were bound by a higher standard of morality in combat than other ancient peoples, in keeping with the dictum, “your camp must be holy.”[10] To a large extent, humanity’s earliest laws of war are found in the Bible. Long before the modern West, the Bible stipulated rules of war that set limits on plunder and on the abuse of prisoners; ban the destruction of fruit-bearing trees unless absolutely necessary;[11] the obligation, when besieging a town, to leave open a “fourth side” (what today we call a “humanitarian corridor”) so that civilians not involved in the fighting can escape;[12] and even mandate a duty to propose peaceful terms before launching an attack on a city—and, if they are accepted, to call off the war.[13]

This last law, according to Maimonides, applies even to the mythical Amalekites: if they agree to peace and accept the bare minimum of universal ethical principles (the “seven Noachide laws”), they are no longer “Amalek.”[14] This is quite incompatible with the idea of genocide, which is based entirely on race and ignores how a people conduct themselves.

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To sum up, we assert that the Application, which sees references to the biblical tribe of Amalek as equivalent to a call for genocide, is mistaken and misleading:

The precept to wipe out Amalek, which it cites, has in fact been deleted from the Jewish law book and become a dead letter.

The Application misquotes the Prime Minister, citing the wrong verse, and fails to distinguish between “remembering” and “wiping out” Amalek.

The Application fails to note that when Israeli speakers mention Amalek, they note that they are referring to members of Hamas, and not to the Palestinian people in Gaza.

The Jewish people have been committed to stringent laws of war since they came into being, more than 3,00 years ago.

There was a post from the Atlantic and a post here where someone explains it. I can try to find it and link it