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Jews sued for 'stealing' gold in Exodus
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | August 22, 2003 | Joseph Farah

Posted on 08/22/2003 5:35:19 PM PDT by yhwhsman

LAW OF THE LAND
Jews sued for 'stealing' gold in Exodus
Egyptians to seek compensation for 'tons' allegedly taken

Posted: August 22, 2003
5:00 p.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

As attorneys and politicians grapple over the validity of slave reparations, a group of Egyptians have trumped the debate with a claim against Jews that dates back thousands of years.

Dr. Nabil Hilmi, a dean at the University of Al-Zaqaziq, said Egyptian expatriates in Switzerland are mounting a massive lawsuit against "all Jews around the world" that seeks compensation for "tons" of gold they claim was stolen during the Jews' exodus out of the country.

Hilmi described the suit in an interview with the Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram Al-Arabi.

"Since the Jews make various demands of the Arabs and the world, and claim rights that they base on historical and religious sources, a group of Egyptians in Switzerland has opened the case of the so-called 'great exodus of the Jews from Pharaonic Egypt.' 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," Hilmi told the paper, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute.

Claiming the alleged theft was documented in Exodus, Chapter 35, verses 12 through 36 in the Torah, Hilmi described how a convoy of 600,000 Jews trailed by a long line of donkeys loaded with the stolen goods ? including 300,000 kg of gold ? crossed the desert in the heart of Sinai, in an attempt to confuse Pharaoh's army.

"The Egyptian Pharaoh was surprised one day to discover thousands of Egyptian women crying under the palace balcony, asking for help and complaining that the Jews stole their clothing and jewels, in the greatest collective fraud history has ever known," the MEMRI translation quotes Hilmi as saying. "The thieves stole everything imaginable."

"One of the women approached Pharaoh, her eyes downcast, and said that her Jewish neighbor who lived in the house on the right of her house had come to her and asked to borrow her gold items, claiming she had been invited to a wedding," Hilmi continued. "The Jewish neighbor took [the items] and promised to return them the next day. A few minutes later, the neighbor to the left knocked on the door and asked to borrow the cooking utensils, because she was having guests for dinner. Using this same deceitful system, they took possession of all the cooking utensils."

Hilmi estimates the nominal value of the 300 tons of gold purportedly stolen 5,758 years ago would be astronomically large. He figures the value doubled every 20 years and conservatively tacks on 5 percent interest.

Hilmi said a legal team will file the lawsuit after the calculation of the compensation is completed.

"If [the alleged theft] is for the purpose of borrowing, legally it has a temporary dimension, not a permanent dimension, and therefore they must return [the gold], with interest, to its owners," he said. "On the other hand, if the Jews took the goods from the Egyptians not for the purpose of borrowing it but to keep them for themselves, by legal norms this is theft, and therefore they must return the stolen goods to their owners, in addition to the interest for its use over the entire period of the theft."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: egypt; exodus; godsgravesglyphs; gold; israel; jews; nabilhilmi; religionofpeace; religionofpieces; reparations; theexodus
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Is the whole world going crazy? And why did they stop at 300 tons of gold? If they're going to pull facts out of thin air, why not claim 1,000 tons of gold?

Yhwhsman

1 posted on 08/22/2003 5:35:20 PM PDT by yhwhsman
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To: yhwhsman
This claim has about as much merit as the claims for slavery reparations.
2 posted on 08/22/2003 5:37:35 PM PDT by 07055
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To: yhwhsman
What are the names of the plaintiffs and the names of the defendants? And won't the plaintiffs have a bit of trouble personally serving the defendants?
3 posted on 08/22/2003 5:39:08 PM PDT by Catspaw
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To: yhwhsman
Jesse Jackson's "Top This", the home version.



4 posted on 08/22/2003 5:39:12 PM PDT by visualops
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To: yhwhsman
This is just the beginning. The next tort these idiots could file is a wrongful death suit taking God to task for drowning the army chasing Moses and company after letting them pass safely.

5 posted on 08/22/2003 5:41:23 PM PDT by bicycle thug (Fortia facere et pati Americanum est.)
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To: bicycle thug
Not to mention the suit against God for causing Noah's flood...

Maybe the heirs of Able can sue the heirs of Cain?

6 posted on 08/22/2003 5:48:03 PM PDT by 07055
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To: yhwhsman
This is a JOKE, right?! Boy, we must be in the last days!!
7 posted on 08/22/2003 5:50:07 PM PDT by RoseofTexas (I)
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To: yhwhsman
It's time to sue Eve(or all females) for that apple thingy.
No matter how much I wash that original stain won't come out.

Gotta be worth a few bucks...huh?
8 posted on 08/22/2003 5:51:54 PM PDT by martian_22 (I'll never say, "I've seen it all.")
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To: yhwhsman
Switzerland's a civil law country and doesn't have the common law doctrine of laches, but I'll bet they do have a statute of limitations...

I liked Jonah Goldberg's suggestion that the Jews countersue for unpaid wages.

9 posted on 08/22/2003 5:52:43 PM PDT by SedVictaCatoni (Quantum meruit.)
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To: yhwhsman
Helloooooooooo...already posted Here and here.

Get a clue, man...

10 posted on 08/22/2003 5:53:57 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Dems lie 'cause they have to...)
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To: bicycle thug
This is just the beginning. The next tort these idiots could file is a wrongful death suit taking God to task for drowning the army chasing Moses and company after letting them pass safely.

There's actually an amusing case from Pennsylvania where a guy sued Satan in state court for ruining his life.

The court held that, to the best of its knowledge, Satan was a foreign prince, and was thus only amenable to suit in federal courts.

11 posted on 08/22/2003 5:54:25 PM PDT by SedVictaCatoni (Handbasket service.)
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To: yhwhsman
Statute of limitations on this is what - 500 years? (They don't call it SOL for nuthin'...)
12 posted on 08/22/2003 5:55:42 PM PDT by Libloather (If Hillary says something, it must be true...)
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To: RoseofTexas
For one thing the Jews didn't take a dime the Egyptian gave them the money to leave and end the plagues.Look what has happened in Alabama, defintely in the last days

EX 12:33 The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. "For otherwise," they said, "we will all die!" [34] So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing. [35] The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. [36] The LORD had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.

13 posted on 08/22/2003 5:56:51 PM PDT by apackof2
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Let the suit proceed!!!!

As the Torah will be entered into evidence as factual, then we can see how much land was promised to the seed of Abraham. We can state as fact that God chose Abraham's son Issac (and his desendents) to be the rightful heirs. There are ALOT of things that the Torah says that would undermine those anti-Israel hatemongers.

14 posted on 08/22/2003 6:02:23 PM PDT by feedback doctor
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I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I have no point of reference to compare this to...
15 posted on 08/22/2003 6:15:28 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (I need a new tag line)
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To: yhwhsman
Jews sued for 'stealing' gold in Exodus

If they're going to pull facts out of thin air, why not claim 1,000 tons of gold?


They were pulling the "facts" out of their butts. Besides, the Jews were just getting about 400 years' back pay from their slavemasters. The religious group that conquered the Egyptians and still remains in control is that of Islam. The Muslim hordes conquered and plundered Egypt very early on in Islam's predation on the Middle East that started with the Jewish and Christian civilization of the Arabian Peninsula of the first millennium and continues to the present day. If anyone owes anything to the descendents of the pre-Muslim Egyptians (mostly Christians) it's the current bunch in Riyadh.
16 posted on 08/22/2003 6:23:04 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Pharmboy
Sorry Pharmboy, I still haven't figured out how to search all the different areas of the boards. Did a search for the article, didn't come up with anything. How do you do an overall search, or do you have to go into each different area (General Interest, News/Activism/ ...) and search each one individually?

Yhwhsman

17 posted on 08/22/2003 6:26:01 PM PDT by yhwhsman ("Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small..." -Sir Winston Churchill)
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I guess the Jews will have to annex Egypt and make the case moot.

--Boris

18 posted on 08/22/2003 6:27:56 PM PDT by boris (Education is always painful; pain is always educational.)
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To: SedVictaCatoni
Switzerland's a civil law country and doesn't have the common law doctrine of laches...

Unlike here in the U.S., where we have a legal system infested with leaches, err, I mean lawyers.

19 posted on 08/22/2003 6:46:36 PM PDT by Orangedog (Soccer-Moms are the biggest threat to your freedoms and the republic !)
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To: yhwhsman
Oh peachy, the US is exporting it litigious culture. /s
This is something I tell people overseas NOT to imitate...
20 posted on 08/22/2003 6:48:46 PM PDT by Libertina
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