Its how some Israelis interpret it . 
1 Samuel 15:3
Saul, Israel’s first king, is told by YHWH via the prophet Samuel, “Now go, attack Amalek, and proscribe [kill and dedicate to YHWH—MZB] all that belongs to him. Spare no one, but kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings, oxen and sheep, camels and asses!”
These passages describe a complete ethnic cleansing (“kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings”) in retaliation for Amalek’s unprovoked attack on Israel when they “were famished and weary” (Deut 25:18). Such genocide, including even the youngest of children, is morally abhorrent; when we teach such texts, we must say so. This is a dangerous biblical text since it is being used, even now, to justify the wholesale murder of any person perceived to be an Amalekite.
Source : https://jewishstudies.duke.edu/news/destroying-amalek
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