Pashut: I think the topic of whether everybody should be learning their whole life is a good topic for discussion. I don’t know why you want to discuss it in the context of some politician getting in a spat with the head of his political party.
If you want to discuss the substance of the question, why get bogged down in the particulars of who was mevazeh who and who is from amalek.
trying: I just googled amsalem and that is what I got.