Law school dean Nabil Helmy of Egypt’s Zagazig University thinks he’s got “the Jews of the world” right where he wants them: according to the newspaper Al-Ahram Al-Arabi (cited by MEMRI), he’s suing them — all of them — in Switzerland, to get back the goods that the Israelites took with them in the Exodus.
Obviously this is a publicity stunt. Professor Helmy must think he’s pretty clever to base his claim on the Hebrew Scripture — they can’t wiggle out of that one, huh?
Fortunately, Prof. Helmy’s unusual legal theory would seem to open the plaintiff up to a countersuit: how many hundreds of years of Hebrew slavery would Egypt have to pay for?
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If Cecile B. DeMile was accurate, Pharoah apparently gave consent for the Israelites to take what spoils they wanted. Thus, there is a huge “consent” issue.