--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <jpgillam@> > wrote: > > > > Is it just me, or does anyone else perceive Passover > > as an act of terrorism? It commemorates the slaughter > > of Egyptian children as a means to persuade Pharaoh > > to make a political decision. > > Fascinating, because the first known use of the > words 'terrorism' and 'terrorist' in the English > press were to describe that actions of Jewish > militants in Palestine, planting bombs to force > the UN vote that created Israel. > > Historic deja vu, and all that...
Well, that would certainly be the anti-Semitic view. But there is a certain parallel to the Holocaust (which was why the Jews felt they needed a homeland of their own) in the biblical story. The decision Pharaoh was being forced to make (by God, not by the Jews themselves, according to the Hebrew Scriptures) was to let the Israelites leave Egypt, where Pharaoh had held them in slavery and slaughtered all *their* firstborn male children, and subsequently all their male newborns. Not as efficient as Hitler's genocide, of course, but then that was a pre-technological age. And of course Passover does not commemorate the slaughter of Egyptian children, it commemorates God having saved the children of the Israelites from *being* slaughtered: the angel who was killing the Egyptian children *passed over* the children of the Israelites. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
