The Passover Loop

Despite being thousands of years old, the story of Passover remains surprisingly (and depressingly) fresh.

A populist ruler rises in one of the most advanced and sophisticated countries in the world. He blames the Jews for all his country’s problems. He blames them for taking unfair economic advantage of the natives, for being a fifth column with high birthrates, for being disgusting foreigners who subvert the nation’s pure ways.

He passes a series of laws that disenfranchise and dehumanize them, reducing them to slaves and criminals in their own country, in which they have lived for hundreds of years, contributing to its culture and economy.

Then he proceeds to outright genocide of the Jewish people.

However, there is a painful lesson as old as time that everyone keeps forgetting: it always starts with Jews, but it never ends with them.

The leader’s murderous ambitions lead to the intervention of a greater power that brings about the devastation of his country and the collapse of his own regime through the use of force he didn’t even imagine was possible.

Fire rains from the sky. The rivers run red with blood. Disease and deprivation stalk the land. Death is in every home.

Milton wrote:

“Abashed the devil stood and saw how awful goodness is.”

Once again, evil learns that good isn’t cute or nice. It’s awful.

Realizing they will never be safe among strangers, the Jews journey to the Promised Land, only to learn it has been occupied by their hostile cousins. However, they are no longer Jews with trembling knees, but a nation of hardened warriors and stubborn dreamers.

Against all odds, they defeat the hateful nations who hold every advantage imaginable against this army of refugees. However, they do not exterminate them, or drive them away despite being advised to do so by their greatest ally.

“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.”

I wonder why?

Surely you can’t blame the UN, Biden, or the High Court for Jewish policies during the Bronze Age? Biden is old, but he’s not that old… Why do the Jews refuse to win wars the way other people do?

This failure to secure a total victory results in the locals creating endless problems for the Jews in generations to come…

And so it goes.

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