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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

Posted on 08/21/2003 12:48:59 PM PDT by adam_az

The August 9, 2003 edition of the Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram Al-Arabi featured an interview with Dr. Nabil Hilmi, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Al-Zaqaziq who, together with a group of Egyptian expatriates in Switzerland, is preparing an enormous lawsuit against "all the Jews of the world." The following are excerpts from the interview: [1]

Dr. Hilmi: "… 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."

Question: "What will the group of Egyptians in Switzerland do about this issue?"

Hilmi: "Dr. Gamil Yaken, vice president of the Egyptian community in Switzerland, came to Egypt to collect information. We set up a legal team to prepare the necessary legal confrontation aimed at restoring what the Jews stole a long time ago, to which the statute of limitations cannot possibly apply. Furthermore, [the theft] is based on their holy book, the same source on which they relied when they invaded other peoples…

"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 theft was not limited to gold alone. The thieves stole everything imaginable. They emptied the Egyptian homes of cooking utensils. 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… 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…"

Question: "It is clear why they stole the gold, but why the cooking utensils?"

Hilmi: "Taking posession of the gold was understandable. This is clear theft of a host country's resources and treasure, something that fits the morals and character of the Jews. Yet what was not clear to the Egyptian women were the reasons for stealing the cooking utensils, when other things may have been of greater value. However, one of the Egyptian priets said that this had been the Jews' twisted way throughout history; they seek to cause a minor problem connected with the needs of everyday life so as to occupy people with these matters and prevent them from pursuing them to get back the stolen gold...

"A police investigation revealed that Moses and Aaron, peace be upon them, understood that it was impossible to live in Egypt, despite its pleasures and even though the Egyptians included them in every activity, due to the Jews' perverse nature, to which the Egyptians had reconciled themselves, though with obvious unwillingness. Therefore, an order was issued by the Jewish rabbis to flee the country, and that the exodus should be secret and under cover of darkness and with the largest possible amount of loot. The code word was 'At midnight.' In addition, the Jewish women were told to steal the gold and cooking utensils of the Egyptian women, and that is what happened."

Question: "Did they leave individually or as a group?"

Hilmi: "They left in a convoy of 600,000, that is, about 120,000 families. There were a few wagons in the convoy, and a long line of donkeys loaded with the stolen goods… They crossed the desert in the heart of Sinai, in an attempt to confuse Pharaoh's army, which was on their trail… Later they rested and began to count the stolen gold, and discovered that it reached 300,000 kg of gold."

Question: "But the Jews can cast doubt on this story with their usual methods. What is the religious evidence you said is in the Torah?"

Hilmi:"Naturally, the Jews cast doubt on this story because that is in their interest. But the answer would be that the story is based on what is written in the Torah. It can be found in Exodus, [Chapter] 35, verses 12 through 36…"

Question: "So what arguments can be made in support of getting back our stolen gold?"

Hilmi: "There are two types of claims, one religious and the other legal. From a religious standpoint, all monotheistic religions have called not to steal… It is also in the Ten Commandments, which the Jews were ordered [to observe]. Therefore, they have a basic religious obligation to return what was stolen, if it exists.

"From a legal standpoint, fleeing with the Egyptians' goods could be for the purpose of borrowing or for the purpose of stealing. If it 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.

"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."

Question: "What do you think is the value of the gold, silver, and clothing that was stolen, and how do you calculate their value today?"

Hilmi: "If we assume that the weight of what was stolen was one ton, [its worth] doubled every 20 years, even if the annual interest is only 5%. In one ton of gold is 700 kg of pure gold – and we must remember that what was stolen was jewelry, that is, alloyed with copper. Hence, after 1,000 years, it would be worth 1,125,898,240 million tons, which equals 1,125,898 billion tons for 1,000 years. In other words, 1,125 trillion tons of gold, that is, a million multiplied by a million tons of gold. This is for one stolen ton. The stolen gold is estimated at 300 tons, and it was not stolen for 1,000 years, but for 5,758 years, by the Jewish reckoning. Therefore, the debt is very large…

"The value must be calculated precisely in accordance with the information collected, and afterward a lawsuit must be filed against all the Jews of the world, and against the Jews of Israel in particular, so they will repay the Egyptians the debt that appears in the Torah."

Question: "Is a compromise solution possible?"

Hilmi: "There may be a compromise solution. The debt can be rescheduled over 1,000 years, with the addition of the cumulative interest during that period."


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Lunatics.
1 posted on 08/21/2003 12:49:00 PM PDT by adam_az
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To: yonif; SJackson
Orig title was "Egyptian Jurists to Sue 'The Jews' for Compensation for 'Trillions' of Tons of Gold Allegedly Stolen During Exodus from Egypt" which is too long to fit on FR forum....

This is one of the most lunatic things I've seen from the Arab press.

Ever.

And that's saying a lot.
2 posted on 08/21/2003 12:50:31 PM PDT by adam_az (.)
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To: adam_az
is this satire?
3 posted on 08/21/2003 12:50:34 PM PDT by ko_kyi
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To: adam_az
The Jews counter-suit claiming damages for 400 years of involuntary servitude dwarfed the egyptian claim and threatens to bankrupt the entire arab world.
4 posted on 08/21/2003 12:51:27 PM PDT by Grim
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To: adam_az
Do they have an itemized inventory to prove just what exactly was taken? BTW - God told them to take it...so here we go again, the "church" separating the "state" of some of its gold...hmmmmm.
5 posted on 08/21/2003 12:52:01 PM PDT by LiteKeeper
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To: adam_az
(Giggle!)Delusional!Hysterical!
6 posted on 08/21/2003 12:52:57 PM PDT by MEG33
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To: adam_az
Hilmi: "They left in a convoy of 600,000, that is, about 120,000 families. There were a few wagons in the convoy, and a long line of donkeys loaded with the stolen goods… They crossed the desert in the heart of Sinai, in an attempt to confuse Pharaoh's army, which was on their trail… Later they rested and began to count the stolen gold, and discovered that it reached 300,000 kg of gold."

And carried around for 40 YEARS????

They had time to steal 300,000 kg of gold, BUT NOT ENOUGH TIME TO LET THE YEAST IN THEIR BREAD RISE?
7 posted on 08/21/2003 12:53:07 PM PDT by adam_az (.)
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To: ko_kyi
No it's sadly a translation from an Egyptian paper.

8 posted on 08/21/2003 12:53:53 PM PDT by adam_az (.)
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To: adam_az; aculeus; general_re; BlueLancer; hellinahandcart; Thinkin' Gal; dennisw; Catspaw; ...

9 posted on 08/21/2003 12:54:10 PM PDT by dighton (NLC™)
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To: adam_az
War is the answer.
10 posted on 08/21/2003 12:55:17 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: ko_kyi
is this satire?

Do Arabs have a sense of humor? I really don't know if this is satire or not (a lot can be lost in a translation) but it would not surprise me at all if it were true.

11 posted on 08/21/2003 12:55:29 PM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: adam_az
The original source or this tripe must be the Onion.
12 posted on 08/21/2003 12:55:43 PM PDT by week 71
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To: adam_az
The sad part is that these bozos might just be able to find an equally loopy anti-Semitic, pro-Palestinian judge in Belgium to take up the case.
13 posted on 08/21/2003 12:56:35 PM PDT by Loyalist
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To: adam_az
Grow up.
14 posted on 08/21/2003 12:57:08 PM PDT by RLK
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To: xm177e2
Here I thought the idea of reparations was one of the most ridiculous I've ever heard. This FAR trumps it.
15 posted on 08/21/2003 12:58:37 PM PDT by laconic
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To: RLK
Are you trying to make a point, beyond the one which won't quite form on the top of your soft head?
16 posted on 08/21/2003 12:59:07 PM PDT by adam_az (.)
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To: ko_kyi
is this satire?

Yes. Cooking utensils. Police investigation, etc.

17 posted on 08/21/2003 12:59:20 PM PDT by Shermy (Stirring the pot...adding fuel to the fire...)
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To: adam_az
I've missed the Onion.

Wait.

18 posted on 08/21/2003 1:02:21 PM PDT by Publius6961
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To: adam_az
The Egyptian gold ended up in the temple in jerusalem where it was stolen by the babylonians who lost it to somebody, I forget who before it was recovered by the Arabs and lost once more to the mongol hordes who lost it to the franks who have it now. So Egypt needs to sue France to recover their property.
19 posted on 08/21/2003 1:02:22 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: Shermy
If Memri.org was had on this they should be pretty chagrined.

As an author of satire myself, I have to really appreciate satire that rides the knife-edge of reality.

I have been in a writing slump because reality keeps trumping my ideas.
20 posted on 08/21/2003 1:02:54 PM PDT by ko_kyi
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