Jews sued for 'stealing' gold in Exodus

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | August 22, 2003 | Joseph Farah

[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."

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Urban legend. :-)

[lafroste]

No, no, no. That's not how it works at all. Since Rome sacked Israel in 70 AD they obviously made off with all the gold. Then the barbarians sacked Rome a couple of hundred years later and Whoosh!! all the gold went north into what is now Germany, France and England. Of course, France consolidated all that gold, then England took it from France and promptly invested it in North America. Therefore, the debt is really owed not by the jews, but by the peoples of North America.

Then, considering the current leadership of the USA, it becomes plain that

This whole mess is Bush's fault and he should be made to pay the Egyptians himself!

[bethelgrad]

"The best" archaelogical findings are inconclusive regarding Hebrews even being in Egypt during the time of the biblical Exodus. What is their evidence? The Bible? If so, then they will see that the Egyptians clearly had it coming.

[Savage Beast]

Maybe the Jews should sue the Egyptians for reparations for enslaving their ancestors. If they hadn't been enslaved (and otherwise mistreated), they wouldn't have had to make the exodus in the first place.

[MarkL]

This claim has about as much merit as the claims for slavery reparations.

Actually, this was reperations TO the slaves by the Egyptians (and not the modern Egyptians, but by the Copts). It was reparations for the centuries of slavery, and for the murders of the male children of the slaves (remember, that was what caused Moses' mother to place him as an infant in a basket in the Nile).

Case dismissed.

Mark

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[sheik yerbouty]

No, the Arabs are nutso.

[Salman]

Considering that modern Egyptians are descended from Arabs who conquered Egypt in the seventh century (and which at the time was Christian)...

[Bon mots]

Well great! Now we can put Muhammed on trial for child rape and mass murder. This happened centuries after the Jews allegedly stole the alleged gold.

Muhammed raped young A'isha when she was just 9 years old, the filthy old pedophile was already about 50 at the time.

He also beheaded 900 Jews one day when he was in a typical crotchety mood. I don't even know what the sum total of his victims were.

So let's put the old pedophile, rapist and murderer on trial too!

[norraad]

..Arabs are nutso,

that's it in a nutshell, they need to sit down & shut up like the nasty, batty & bratty little children that thay are.

This may sound too simplistic to the over intellectual, spiritually superior amoung us, but it's the truth, nonetheless.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I think this case was settled about 2,500 years ago by Alexander the Great IIRC.

Besides Egypt looted Jerusalem in the time of Rehoboam.

25 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. 26 He carried off the treasures of the temple of the LORD and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.

I Kings 14:25-26

[SunkenCiv]

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[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

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

LOl. good one