Posted on 08/31/2014 12:34:12 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
If Egypt will forgive Israel for taking gold given to it freely, Israel will forgive Egypt for holding the Israelites as slaves.
We need to keep in mind, above all, that whatever the Israelites picked up on the way out of Egypt (and it was just enough to fashion the golden calf, probably a thin foil of gold covering a wooden idol), wasn’t taken from Arabs, it was taken from pharaonic Egyptians. If that demagogue wanted to set things right, he’d get all the Arabs to stop occupying Egypt and go back where his ancestors came from.
To which Egyptians? The Coptic Christians have the strongest claim to descent from the ancient ones. Is that the group this claimant comes from? So wait until they get the bill for what the Mohammadans destroyed in Alexandria, etc. before counting potential profits here.
Exodus 12:35-36 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they "borrowed" of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they "lent" unto them such things as they required. And they "spoiled" the Egyptians.
In Hebrew the words for Borrowed and Lent, mean the same then as now, and spoiled means pillaged or plundered, according to the Hebrew Lexicon.
It should be noted that legally, at the time the "Children of Israel" left Egypt, there was no Nation of Israel, nor was there any such thing as a "Jew" until the book of 2Kings, so the Egyptians today may have a complaint, but they do not have a Case, much the same as Blacks have no Case for reparations, or they would have gotten it already, of course as the justice system continues to get more perverted on a daily basis, anything could happen.
Lets see now the Jews who lived in Egypt at the time were slaves so having gold was out of the question & the fact that the Egyptians told them to leave means that the Egyptian polisci professor is just to stupid to look in the mirror & realize that his countries problems are due to his country’s citizens not the Jews.
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Since Moses ground up the golden calf, mixed it with water and forced the Jews to drink it, maybe Israel should send it’s feces to Egypt and tell them it’s golden.
ROFLMAO
ok... sounds great.
of course, the Egyptians will also have to pay back wages, plus interest, for the hours worked. they will also need to pay for any loss of life experienced while under state work orders... plus interest
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.
lol. :)
WHO_STOLE_THE_GOOD_SILVERWARE_PING!
He should talk to the Bablyonians, or the Romans, or the Ottomans....
The inbreeding, it shows.
Exactly. He’s not descended from the ancient Egyptians. If he really cares about righting past wrongs he and his kind should leave Egypt and give the land to the Copts and others who are more genealogically descended from the actual Egyptians of history.
That would be Lobelia Sackville-Baggins. But that was at Bag End, not in Egypt....
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I thought that all the Egyptian gold was used to make a “Golden Calf” which was destroyed by Moses.
And it will get worse...
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.
In Hebrew it is rendered as the Sea of Reeds. “The 10 Commandments” was a lot of Hollywood hooey, as are many interpretations in any language other than the original.
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