Israel should just say come and take it.
Liberal Jews are bound to start a fund raising campaign any day now to right this wrong.
WHO_STOLE_THE_GOOD_SILVERWARE_PING!
He should talk to the Bablyonians, or the Romans, or the Ottomans....
I thought that all the Egyptian gold was used to make a “Golden Calf” which was destroyed by Moses.
Ok, fine, we Jews will return 100 tons of gold to Egypt. Take the value out of the reparations for 210 years of direct slavery and the murder of thousands of first-born males. Let’s make this very symbolic and reasonable - value all of that labor and misery at only $1.00. For all of us, not for each of our ancestors. Just add a nominal amount of interest to that - far below the prevailing rate over time - just to be fair and reasonable to us. I’ll use 1.00% per year, compounded annually. My calculator says that $1 compounded at 1% per year for the last 3300 years is approximately $183.2 trillion, or about $12.2 million for each of the 15 million of us. Oh, that 100 tons of gold, at $1300/oz.? It is worth about $3.8 billion. Heck, let’s be generous with the Egyptians and say it was 5,000 tons...that still puts it’s value at well under $0.2 trillion, so they only owe the Jews $183 trillion.
This is such a deal that we can only offer it once, take it or leave it. If you Egyptians don’t accept, then forget about the return of the gold or any value for it. Remember, we gave you a fair shot at it, severely underestimating the value of our labor and suffering, taking a really subpar rate of interest, paying a bit more than market rate for the gold and assuming a truly absurd amount was taken by our ancestors. Take the offer or STFU, forever.
Voodoo.
The gold was not stolen, it was given. Sort of as an encouragement to hurry up and leave before they had to endure another lesson from the One, True, God.
Also, the people currently living is Egypt, have darn little to do with the Egyptians of era of the Exodus.