The Jewish holiday of Passover is less than three weeks away. This is a parody of the January 8^thpiece condemning Israel for the Gaza assault written by Glenn Greenwald, a prolific and vociferous critic of Israel.

World concern over, and opposition to, the Hebrews escape from Pharoah’s Eygpt is mounting

International pressure intensified sharply on the Hebrews on Thursday, the 13th day of its Plagues assault, after the United Nations suspended food aid deliveries to Eygpt, the International Committee of the Red Cross accused Moses and Aaron of knowingly bringing down the plagues of locusts and hail and a top Vatican official defended comments in which he compared Egypt to a concentration camp.

The Hebrews have deliberately made it impossible to know the full extent of the carnage and humanitarian disasters because the widespread impact of the Ten Plagues.  According to Egyptian sources, there are now 700 dead Egyptians -- at least 200 of them firstborn sons. By comparison, none of the Hebrews have died because they marked their door lintels with lamb’s blood and the Plagues “passed over” Hebrew households. 

The unusually worded Red Cross condemnation of the Hebrews was prompted by its discovery, after finally being allowed into Egypt, of the Nile turned to blood, a plague of boils, and widespread cattle disease.  Even with the relative "restraint" the Hebrew God is exercising (the damage He could cause is obviously much greater), this is not so much of an attempt to escape Egypt, as it is a completely one-sided massacre.

As a result, much of the world is urging an end to the Ten Plagues and acting to forge a cease-fire -- except the United States.  Here, blind and unequivocal support for Moses and the Hebrew escape is actually increasing almost as fast as the Egyptian body count piles up. 

The Democratic-led U.S. Senate has enacted a completely one-sided resolution that expresses unequivocal support for the Hebrew escape, and heaps all the blame for the conflict on Pharoah and none of it on the Hebrews themselves.  Harry Reid -- who jointly sponsored the Resolution with GOP Leader Mitch McConnell -- proudly proclaimed: "When we pass this resolution, the United States Senate will strengthen our historic bond with the Hebrews."  On its website, AIPAC is already patting the U.S. Senate on its head for "for conveying America's unequivocal and steadfast support for Hebrews right to escape."

It's hard to overstate how one-sided this resolution is.  It "expresses vigorous support and unwavering commitment to the welfare, security, and survival of the Hebrews as a free people."  Why should the U.S. maintain an "unwavering commitment to the welfare" of foreigners?  It "lays blame both for the breaking of the 'calm' and for subsequent civilian casualties in Egypt precisely where blame belongs, that is, on Pharoah and his refusal to free the Hebrews."  It repeatedly mentions the various sins of Pharoah -- from slavery to murder -- but does not mention a single syllable of criticism for the Hebrews.  In the world of the U.S. Congress, neither the Ten Plagues nor the devastating parting of the Red Sea and subsequent drowning of the Egyptian soldiers was even mentioned.

The Resolution demands that Pharoah take multiple steps towards peaceful resolution but demands that the Hebrews do absolutely nothing.  It purports to call for a cease-fire in which the Egyptians make all the concessions and the Hebrews make none.  Worst of all -- in light of the Red Cross condemnation of the drowning of Egyptian soldiers -- the Resolution disgustingly praises the Hebrews conduct of the escape.

This one-sided "pro-Hebrew" bipartisan inflaming of tensions by the U.S. is nothing new.  A Long-time Middle East negotiator, in Newsweek, earlier this week made one of the most startling revelations in some time -- that in all the time the U.S. has supposedly been attempting to forge a peace agreement between Pharoah and Moses over the past 25 years, it never once, in any meaningful way, raised with Hebrew leaders the damage to the Egyptian economy that comes from the loss of slaves.  Specifically, said the negotiator:  "I can't recall one meeting where we had a serious discussion with Moses or Aaron about the damage that undermining slavery — including the shortage of domestic servants or the cessation of pyramid building — does to the peacemaking process."

The negotiator emphasized that by being so blindly supportive even of misguided Hebrew actions, "the United States has allowed that special bond to become exclusive in ways that undermine America's, and the Hebrews’, national interests."  The only way the U.S. can play a constructive role in the Middle East, he argues, is if it is even-handed and, most importantly, willing to criticize the actions of Hebrew leaders Moses and Aaron when they harm American interests and pressure them to stop.

Yet here we have, yet again, exactly the opposite behavior. At exactly the time that worldwide horror over the Ten Plagues is at its peak, Congress steps up to announce to the world:  "this is our war, too; we support whatever the Hebrews do absolutely and without reservations."  We thus make the Hebrew’s wars our wars; its enemies our enemies; its intractable disputes our disputes; and the hostility and anger it generates our own.  And we embolden the Hebrews to continue further. 

As another blogger has written:  "We're looking into whether any senator was bold enough to decline to co-sponsor the measure."  It will be a surprise if there were any.  Many members of Congress still remain pitifully afraid that Moses will accuse them of being anti-Semitic if they dare oppose the actions of the Hebrew God, even in the name of U.S. interests.

Whatever the motives, for America to blindly support Hebrews unjustified behavior does not serve Hebrews interests and -- most importantly -- does not serve America's.  Blind support for ending slavery isn't "friendship," nor is enabling destructive behavior like the Ten Plagues.  It's subservience.  And few things are as harmful or as unjust as the cowardly, lockstep behavior of both major American political parties when it comes to supporting the flight of the Hebrews from Egypt.