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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-849785
If Moses Freed the Jews Today, the UN Would Condemn Him as a War Criminal
(Jerusalem Post) Gerald M. Steinberg - When Jews on Passover retell the 4,000-year-old story of the Exodus from slavery to freedom, they recall Pharaoh's order to murder all male Israelite children - a form of genocide. God then appointed Moses to lead them out of bondage through 10 plagues that devastated the entire Egyptian population. If these events had transpired today, the powerful "human rights" industry, led by the UN and the NGO superpowers (Human Rights Watch and Amnesty), would issue lengthy reports, hold press conferences, and publish posts on social media platforms condemning Moses and Aaron as war criminals. The International Criminal Court would issue arrest warrants charging the Israelite leaders with genocide. The successful creation of Israel and its survival remains the core "crime." The 1947 UN Partition Plan (the original two states for two peoples) and the victory of the Jews over the invading Arab armies were spun into nefarious Zionist plots, aided by the imperialist West. For Israel's critics, Israelis have no inherent right of self-defense - all military actions, including after the Oct. 7 atrocities, are automatically and cynically defined as war crimes. In parallel, Palestinian Arabs are perpetual victims, and any act against the hated Zionists, no matter how brutal, is embraced as "resistance." Today, the EU, NGO and UN network would denounce the ten plagues as a highly disproportionate use of force, and demand the return of the Israelite slaves to their Egyptian owners. The writer is founder and president of NGO Monitor and professor emeritus of political studies at Bar-Ilan University.