Ye Olde Staging Point

It is supposed to be, I guess, the logical corrollary to the creation of the state of Israel. Displacing Palestinians to make room for a modern Jewish state on the strength of Old Testament history makes no more nor less sense than demanding remuneration from modern Jews for stolen Egyptian goods based on Old Testament history. Which I guess is the point they were trying to make: that if you think one is stupid, you ought to think both are stupid.

I wonder if this Egyptian brain trust is planning on suing God for wrongful death of all the first-born male children at the time of the Exodus. I also wonder if there figures include off-setting the damages "all the Jews in the world" suffered because of the execution of their male children and years of enslavement at the hands of the Egyptians.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to prepare a lawsuit agains "all the Turks of the world" for attacking my ancestors in Hungary...

Ed, I can see what you're getting at, but I think you're being too generous to this guy--his plan to sue "the Jews of the world" seems to me to be mostly just racist idiocy, and even if it weren't, I think the analogy is pretty shaky. I'm sure there are good arguments out there on both sides of the Israel/Palestine thing, but I don't think this one of them.

Anyway, I wasn't trying to make any statement about the Israel/Palestine thing, only to note the bizarreness of the planned lawsuit, which you must admit is bizarre. And here I thought that the U.S. Civil War/slavery reparations issue was convoluted...

I note, BTW, that ChristianityToday has an interesting story on this.

Of course, I meant "their figures" not "there figures". They're, now I've fixed my mistake.

Very well, I will take their case. As the attorney, I will be entitled to 40% of 1.125 Trillion tons of gold times 300 times 5.758. In other words, I would get nearly as much as the lawyers in the tobacco class-action cases.