http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=6140 Luke Ford and Joey Kurtzman discuss Torah portion Haazinu. Deuteronomy 32. God might have reduced them to nothing, made their memory cease among men, except for fear of the taunts of their enemies, who might misjudge and conclude that their own hand had prevailed and not God’s. For Israel’s enemies were a folk void of sense, lacking in discernment.