Wallstrom: Drowning Of Egyptian Cavalry In Red Sea ‘Extrajudicial’

Ten destructive plagues led to earlier, separate calls for an inquiry into those events as crimes against humanity.

Stockholm, January 18 – Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Margot Wallstrom called for an investigation into the Lord and Moses today, saying that the circumstances under which the Egyptian cavalry pursuing the Israelites into the Red Sea drowned raise suspicions of extrajudicial killing.

The minister made the remarks in a speech to Parliament this morning in which she affirmed her government’s support for the rule of law and accountability in military operations by Israel and those who support Israel. Others in Sweden’s government echoed her sentiments, and added that the body count resulting from multiple cases in which the Lord intervened on behalf of Israel may run afoul of the rule of proportionality.

The Israelites fled bondage in Egypt after hundreds of years there, following the lead of Moses and his brother Aaron, who negotiated with the Pharaoh for their release. The Egyptian king waffled but eventually relented, swayed by ten plagues of increasing fearsomeness. However, within several days of the Israelites’ departure, the Pharaoh again changed his mind, and pursued the ex-slaves with his chariot corps. The Lord instructed Moses to raise his arm over the Sea of Reeds, which split to reveal a path of dry land. The Israelites marched across, and the Egyptian cavalry gave pursuit. Just as the Israelites emerged on the other side, Moses again gestured to the sea, which crashed back into position, destroying the pursuing Egyptians. Wallstrom contended that Moses acted illegally.

“Partisans of the Israelites may argue that Moses was simply following God’s orders, but in our lifetimes we have seen that defense rendered inadmissible in cases of violations of humanitarian law and the laws of war,” she warned.

The ten destructive plagues led to earlier, separate calls for an inquiry into those events as crimes against humanity. That inquiry was eventually closed, as the investigators refused to treat the evidence, which comes ultimately from Jewish sources, as credible, since doing so might by implication grant legitimacy to the Jewish narrative of an ancient connection to the Holy Land. Experts believe the same fate may ultimately face whatever inquest, if any, results from Wallstrom’s call.

“Unless Palestinians and their allies get comfortable with the notion that Israel has a connection with the Promised Land, their cases of this ilk will go nowhere,” explained political historian Joseph Flavius. “Also, for her own edification Ms. Wallsrtom might want to look into portions of the same body of evidence for the Red Sea episode that discuss the moral degeneracy of those who exploit their positions of power for financial gain.”