Egyptian Wants to Sue Israel for Damages Caused by Biblical Plagues

Teresa Neumann : Mar 31, 2014
Ahuva Balofsky – Breaking Israel News

"We want compensation for the [Ten] Plagues that were inflicted upon [us] as a result of the curses that the Jews' ancient forefathers [cast] upon our ancient forefathers, who did not deserve to pay for the mistake that Egypt's ruler at the time, Pharaoh as the Torah calls him, committed." -Ahmad al-Gamal

(Egypt)—Ahmad al-Gamal, a columnist for Al-Yawm Al-Sabi daily newspaper, has proposed that Egypt sue numerous countries—including Israel—for damages inflicted over the past few thousand years. (Photo via Jamaica Observer)

Those countries include: France, for Napoleon's invasion, Turkey for the "abuses" of the Ottoman Empire, Britain for its lengthy occupation, and Israel for damages caused by Old Testament plagues.

According to a report in Breaking Israel News, al-Gamal "claims the Bible's collective punishment of the Egyptian people was uncalled for, as it was Pharaoh himself who was responsible for the suffering of the Israelites, and quoted the Hebrew Bible in asserting [Israel] should repay Egypt for the harm caused by the plagues, as well as the theft of precious commodities used to build the Tabernacle in the desert."

Wrote al-Gamal: "We want compensation for the [Ten] Plagues that were inflicted upon [us] as a result of the curses that the Jews' ancient forefathers [cast] upon our ancient forefathers, who did not deserve to pay for the mistake that Egypt's ruler at the time, Pharaoh as the Torah calls him, committed. For what is written in the Torah proves that it was Pharaoh who oppressed the Children of Israel, rather than the Egyptian people. [But] they inflicted upon us the plague of locusts that didn't leave anything behind them; the plague that transformed the Nile's waters into blood, so nobody could drink of them for a long time; the plague of darkness that kept the world dark day and night; the plague of frogs; and the plague of the killing of the firstborn, namely every first offspring born to woman or beast, and so on."

"We want compensation," he continued, "for the gold, silver, copper, precious stones, fabrics, hides and lumber, and for [all] animal meat, hair, hides and wool, and for other materials... that the Jews used in their rituals. These are resources that cannot be found among desert wanderers unless they took them before their departure..."