I teach Jewish history in to 6th graders in a Hebrew school. And this photo could stand in for many scenes from what I teach (or for that matter, movies like “Prince of Egypt” and “The Ten Commandments”). It’s a photo taken today, of Palestinians returning on foot to Gaza. That should bother us. - ThreadSky

rachelpowers.bsky.social • 32 days ago

I teach Jewish history in to 6th graders in a Hebrew school. And this photo could stand in for many scenes from what I teach (or for that matter, movies like “Prince of Egypt” and “The Ten Commandments”).

It’s a photo taken today, of Palestinians returning on foot to Gaza.

That should bother us.

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rachelpowers.bsky.social•32 days ago

This is, most likely, similar to what it looked like when the Jews staggered out of Sinai after slavery in Egypt. And what it looked like when the Jews arrived in Babylon after seeing the destruction of the First Temple. What they looked like when they returned to Jerusalem from Babylon. And what it

rachelpowers.bsky.social•32 days ago

looked like when they managed to flee a burning Jerusalem and the Romans in the year 70 CE. (Not to mention the diasporas from England and Spain in the Middle Ages, massive movements from Eastern Europe before the Holocaust, and the brutal final marches from individual camps at the end of WWII.)

rachelpowers.bsky.social•32 days ago

Is there going to be a Miriam singing Mi Chamocha at the end of *this* march? Probably not? But the Jews and Egyptians remained enemies for thousands of years after the Exodus, and it took the convergence of Carter, Sadat, and Begin, not to mention *oceans* of time, death and poverty, to overcome

rachelpowers.bsky.social•32 days ago

that epic rift, and I’ll be damned if I know how it’s held for this long. Because nothing else in the Middle East has.

Israel and the US and Hamas should stop fucking with lives and millennia, is my point. The fact that we can turn on the news in the morning, see another modern day exodus of

rachelpowers.bsky.social•32 days ago

refugees, we can know that Israel and the US bear responsibility for what is, in essence, an almost biblical event, and it’s not even the top story in US papers….
That’s a fucking disgrace.

And I will still be pissed about it at Pesach.

rachelpowers.bsky.social•32 days ago

It took, what, **three thousand years** and Jimmy Carter’s magic wand to heal a rift between the People of Pharoah and the People of Moses???
Then we need to be quaking with terror when we see these scenes. What have we done? We need to implore the heavens. What have we done?

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