When I first read about the Egyptian lawsuit against each and every Jew in the world for trillions of dollars, I was nonplused, until I started thinking about it. Rather quickly, my attitude changed into one of, ?Gotchya ? check and mate!?
While the lawsuit itself may be simply another vicious and sadistic attack on Jews, the Egyptians? stated basis for it is, to say the least, equivalent to shooting themselves in the foot. What?s even better is that it is too late to take it back. Dr. Nabil Hilmi, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of al-Zaqaziq made a statement in the August 9, 2003 edition of the Egyptian weekly al-Ahram al-Arabi that he takes as fact the Bible?s account of the Exodus. The suit, he said, "...is based on what is written in the Torah. It can be found in Exodus, [Chapter] 12, verses 35 through 36?"
To clarify the implication of this, the Dean of Faculty of Law for an official government-sponsored university has stated that the Hebrew Bible is fact. This means that not only is the account of Exodus fact, but so are all other historical references. His statement attesting to the Bible?s veracity has wide-reaching ripples, which he apparently seemed not to consider in his lust to persecute each and every Jew on the planet.
What ripples? Let me elucidate.
Let?s start with the Temple Mount dispute. In an article in The Baptist Standard, August 21, 2000, Sheikh Ekrima Sa'id Sabri, the supreme Muslim religious leader, or mufti, of Jerusalem, stated in reference to the Temple Mount, "History indicates that the Jews had a temple, but until today, they don't know exactly where it was. It could be in Jericho or Bethlehem. There isn't a single stone here that has a connection with the Jews."
Gotchya!
One of the legal leaders in the Arab world has unequivocally stated for the record that the Bible is fact; ergo, so is the account contained within it regarding King Solomon?s Temple. The place where the Temple Mount is now situated is first mentioned as being a sacred place in Genesis. Mount Moriah, on which the Temple was eventually erected, is known as the spot where Adam was born and where he built an altar to God; where Cain and Abel offered up their sacrifices; and where Noah built an altar after the Flood (Genesis viii. 20). Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice on this "mount of the Lord" (ibid. xxii. 14). David bought the site from Araunah "to build an altar unto the Lord" (II Samuel xxiv. 21); and finally, it was chosen as the site of the permanent altar in the Holy of Holies of Solomon's Temple.
By admitting that the Hebrew Bible is historical fact, one of the premier Arab legal minds confirms the historic Jewish connection to the Temple Mount and contradicts the contention of the Sheikh Sabri. In light of this, perhaps it is time to take all necessary legal steps to rid that most sacred spot in Judaism of the late-coming Muslims, who not merely lie about its history, but who, through the auspices of the Waqf, are actively destroying any evidence that Jews were there first. At the very least, it is time to remove the Waqf as overseers of the Temple Mount. Their assertion that only Muslims have any historical connection to it has just been proven wrong by one of their own best legal authorities.
The Golan Heights is another dispute that benefits from Dr. Hilmi?s assertion that the Bible is fact. Even though Israel won what is historically Jewish land, the Arab world contends that it is rightfully theirs. Putting aside the fact that Israel won it fair and square in a war against impossible odds, Dr. Hilmi has confirmed, by his acceptance of biblical accounts, that the Golan Heights belongs to the Jews. The Bashan region, of which the Golan is a part, was promised to the Patriarch Abraham and the people of Israel on the occasion of the "Covenant Between the Parts" recounted in Genesis 15. Half of the tribe of Menasheh settled in the area after the Jews returned to the Land, and the city of Golan in Bashan served as a city of refuge (Deuteronomy iv, 43).
Nor is the Golan Heights the only geographic area that the Bible confirms is rightfully the property of the Jews. Another biggie is the city of Jerusalem ? the whole city of Jerusalem, not some divvied-up piece of property. The Arab claim that it is referred to in the Koran is not merely wrong (there being not one mention of Jerusalem in there), it is now moot, since Jewish claims to the land precede any Muslim claim by thousands of years according to that recognized book of historical fact, the Bible.
Gotchya!
Now that Dr. Hilmi has recognized the Bible as historical fact, we Jews should comb the Bible for historical references to Jewish ownership of other lands and sites that are rightfully Jewish. We should then sue all the interlopers and usurpers to get back that which is ours. And our chief witness can be Dr. Hilmi, G-d bless his hateful little heart.
(Gotchya!)
While the lawsuit itself may be simply another vicious and sadistic attack on Jews, the Egyptians? stated basis for it is, to say the least, equivalent to shooting themselves in the foot. What?s even better is that it is too late to take it back. Dr. Nabil Hilmi, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of al-Zaqaziq made a statement in the August 9, 2003 edition of the Egyptian weekly al-Ahram al-Arabi that he takes as fact the Bible?s account of the Exodus. The suit, he said, "...is based on what is written in the Torah. It can be found in Exodus, [Chapter] 12, verses 35 through 36?"
To clarify the implication of this, the Dean of Faculty of Law for an official government-sponsored university has stated that the Hebrew Bible is fact. This means that not only is the account of Exodus fact, but so are all other historical references. His statement attesting to the Bible?s veracity has wide-reaching ripples, which he apparently seemed not to consider in his lust to persecute each and every Jew on the planet.
What ripples? Let me elucidate.
Let?s start with the Temple Mount dispute. In an article in The Baptist Standard, August 21, 2000, Sheikh Ekrima Sa'id Sabri, the supreme Muslim religious leader, or mufti, of Jerusalem, stated in reference to the Temple Mount, "History indicates that the Jews had a temple, but until today, they don't know exactly where it was. It could be in Jericho or Bethlehem. There isn't a single stone here that has a connection with the Jews."
Gotchya!
One of the legal leaders in the Arab world has unequivocally stated for the record that the Bible is fact; ergo, so is the account contained within it regarding King Solomon?s Temple. The place where the Temple Mount is now situated is first mentioned as being a sacred place in Genesis. Mount Moriah, on which the Temple was eventually erected, is known as the spot where Adam was born and where he built an altar to God; where Cain and Abel offered up their sacrifices; and where Noah built an altar after the Flood (Genesis viii. 20). Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice on this "mount of the Lord" (ibid. xxii. 14). David bought the site from Araunah "to build an altar unto the Lord" (II Samuel xxiv. 21); and finally, it was chosen as the site of the permanent altar in the Holy of Holies of Solomon's Temple.
By admitting that the Hebrew Bible is historical fact, one of the premier Arab legal minds confirms the historic Jewish connection to the Temple Mount and contradicts the contention of the Sheikh Sabri. In light of this, perhaps it is time to take all necessary legal steps to rid that most sacred spot in Judaism of the late-coming Muslims, who not merely lie about its history, but who, through the auspices of the Waqf, are actively destroying any evidence that Jews were there first. At the very least, it is time to remove the Waqf as overseers of the Temple Mount. Their assertion that only Muslims have any historical connection to it has just been proven wrong by one of their own best legal authorities.
The Golan Heights is another dispute that benefits from Dr. Hilmi?s assertion that the Bible is fact. Even though Israel won what is historically Jewish land, the Arab world contends that it is rightfully theirs. Putting aside the fact that Israel won it fair and square in a war against impossible odds, Dr. Hilmi has confirmed, by his acceptance of biblical accounts, that the Golan Heights belongs to the Jews. The Bashan region, of which the Golan is a part, was promised to the Patriarch Abraham and the people of Israel on the occasion of the "Covenant Between the Parts" recounted in Genesis 15. Half of the tribe of Menasheh settled in the area after the Jews returned to the Land, and the city of Golan in Bashan served as a city of refuge (Deuteronomy iv, 43).
Nor is the Golan Heights the only geographic area that the Bible confirms is rightfully the property of the Jews. Another biggie is the city of Jerusalem ? the whole city of Jerusalem, not some divvied-up piece of property. The Arab claim that it is referred to in the Koran is not merely wrong (there being not one mention of Jerusalem in there), it is now moot, since Jewish claims to the land precede any Muslim claim by thousands of years according to that recognized book of historical fact, the Bible.
Gotchya!
Now that Dr. Hilmi has recognized the Bible as historical fact, we Jews should comb the Bible for historical references to Jewish ownership of other lands and sites that are rightfully Jewish. We should then sue all the interlopers and usurpers to get back that which is ours. And our chief witness can be Dr. Hilmi, G-d bless his hateful little heart.
(Gotchya!)