As Passover approaches, an ancient Jewish story offers a timely lesson for American foreign policy: a people trapped between a tyrant’s army and an unforgiving sea, paralyzed by justified fear, waiting for certainty that does not come. One man is willing to step from darkness into the unknown.

The Haggadah, read at the Passover meal, teaches that every generation must see itself as having gone out of Egypt. The point is not historical memory as much as it is recurrence: the lesson that every generation faces its own Red Sea moments, when moving from bondage toward freedom requires stepping forward without knowing the outcome.

In the traditional telling, the sea does not part because the Israelites have a plan, nor because a miracle is expected. Pharaoh’s imperial army—and enforced enslavement—is behind them, the sea is in front of them, and there is no path forward. The people panic and cry out in fear and despair. Moses........

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