Egyptian Jurists Sue 'The Jews' for Compensation...of Gold Allegedly Stolen During Exodus from Egypt

Memri.org ^ | 8/09/03 | Dr. Nabil Hilmi, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Al-Zaqaziq

[bsaunders]

Wait till they get the bill for building the pyramids.

[kazatzkeh]

(Talmud Babvli, Sanhedrin 91 side 1)

In the time of Alexander the Macedonian, the egyptians came to him with a complaint against the jews quoting the Torah (exodus 12:36) 'And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians.'. and we want it back.

Geviha Ben Pesisa, a Jew requested of the scholars of the time 'allow me to reply to them, if I lose you can say he wasn't a scholar. Should I win please say that it was the Torah of Moshe that carried the argument.'

Geviha then asked the Egyptians where is your proof? they replied your Torah (verse above). Geviha answered, then I will to use the torah, does it not say (exodus 12:40) 'Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.' you owe us for the labor of 600,000 people that you enslaved for 400 years.

Alexander gave the Egyptians 3 days in which to refute Geviha's answer. They never returned, leaving behind all their fields in Israel. That year being a sabbatical year (shmita) when all fields lay fallow, these abandoned fields were a boon for the Jews.

[muawiyah]

More like the gold was mostly gone by the time the Babylonians got around to looting Jerusalem. There was, after all, an earlier Egyptian invasion.

No doubt any gold was taken back to Egypt.

A "trivial pursuit" question: How many times has the Temple in Jerusalem been desacreted, and or reduced to rubble? You have 30 seconds to think about it. Was it one time? Twice? Three times? Four times? Other?

Another one, and this will depend on your religion, how many times has the Messiah been manifest? A little Bible knowledge would help for this one, but no use of the concordance. Was it once? Twice? Three times? Kind of regularly every couple of dozen years? I don't know.

Thinking of all that gold in all those wagons behind all those donkeys trudging across the desert leads to a free flow of consciencousness.

[RightWhale]

The Inca who had no goldmines and the Spanish who stripped America bare of gold are involved in this. The Egyptians lost the gold again and the Inca mysteriously acquired tons of it. Where is the Spanish gold now, the part that managed to sail beyond Havana without sinking? France again, but wait! What happened to the Templar fleet?

[pabianice]

Right. And these hateful lunatics are the people the Israelis are supposed to "bargain with" for peace...

[yonif]

At that time, they stole from the Pharaonic Egyptians gold, jewelry, cooking utensils, silver ornaments, clothing, and more, leaving Egypt in the middle of the night with all this wealth, which today is priceless

Thanks for the ping adam_az. This is crazy.

I guess the next lawsuit will be for the 10 Plagues God brought upon the Egyptians.

[MEG33]

My contribution at #6!LOL

[CJ Wolf]

"Islam doesn't hold with 'usury'." No, It's ok, they can charge interest against jews and christians, it's just that they can't charge interest against people of their own religion.

[El Cid]

Ha! This is a hoot on so many different levels:

1)An interesting test case for statute of limitations...(what's 3500 years amongst friends?).

2)The Egyptians gave the jewelry and gold willingly (and proving otherwise will be awfully ... tough).

3) Will the party(ies) who claims they were personally ripped off please stand up?

4) Can the parties who claim to be descendents of the 'victims' prove it (i.e., got any photos of great-great-great-great-great-insert 100 greats here-great grandmama's missing bracelet)? Got her original police report reporting the theft?

Anyways - good for a chuckle (P.S. - if any, or all, of these observations were made in the article - I apologize for being redundant because I never got past the headline)

[etcetera]

The Jews should file a counter suit - reparations for 400 years of slave labor.

[headsonpikes]

So this isn't an Arab Onion article?

These guys are whack-jobs! Big time!

[MEG33]

Oh,I like that!

[Vinnie]

Guess we missed the headline

'Johnny Cochran and Jesse Jackson wrap up their idea exchange to Egypt'

[Democratshavenobrains]

I'm sure the Jews will be happy to pay, as long as the original inhabitants of Egypt agree to return and run all the Arab Muslims out of the Middle East. Compared to Allah, Ra is a big Teddy Bear.

[Wild Thing]

Lunatic is right Adam ! My gosh !

Wild Thing

[etcetera]

Actually, the Saudis have it. Read Howard Blum's The Gold of Exodus. He makes the case that the gold was buried on the true Mt. Sinai and discovered by the Saudis.

[ConservativeConvert]

Ummm...this is a joke, right?

[adam_az]

Unfortunately, no.

Memri is a respected organization that translates Arabic news to English.

[LibKill]

Such idiocy as this is is beyond belief.

It's even worse than the 'slave reparations' BS in the USA.

[KQQL]

"ISLAM IS PEACE" so says W..........

By the way tell the MORONS to Sue God of Israel too......