Israel Matzav: Rehabilitating Pharoah

Rehabilitating Pharoah

Have we been too hard on Pharoah (Hat Tip: Instapundit):

(4) Multiculturalism: In contrast to the ethnocentrism of modern Zionism, the Hebrews in Egypt under the Pharaoh’s regime were multicultural. When they left Egypt, they took their “mixed multitude” (Heb. Erev rav) friends with them.

(5) The Al Gore of 1500 BCE: Rivers filled with frogs. Plagues of locusts. Cattle dying. No wonder Pharaoh didn’t let the Hebrews go. His heart wasn’t “hardened,” as the Jewish version goes. He just thought these were the natural consequences of global climate change.

Heh.

Israel Matzav: Rehabilitating Pharoah