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84 The Amalekites of the Bible!

red as blood, THE EARTH SHOOK, THE SEA ROSE in a sud den tidal wave. THE
INVADERS FROM ARABIA OCCUPIED THE SOUTH OF PALESTINE....(ibid, p.91).

The Arab historian Masudi picks up the story:

When this con queror [El-Welid, son of Douma] CAME TO SYRIA [and south ern Pal es -
tine] HE HEARD RUMORS ABOUT EGYPT. He sent there one of his ser vants named
Ouna, with a great host of war riors. El-Welid op pressed the in hab it ants, seized their pos ses -
sions and drew forth all the trea sures he could find.

Else where in his work, Masudi states: “An Amalekite king, el-Welid, son of Douma,
ARRIVED FROM SYRIA, INVADED EGYPT, CONQUERED IT, SEIZED THE THRONE
AND OCCUPIED IT with out op po si tion, his life long.”

In an other work of his Masudi gives a more de tailed ac count of the con quest of el-Welid:

El-Welid, son of Douma, ad vanced at the head of a nu mer ous army, with the in ten tion to
over run di verse coun tries and to over throw their sov er eigns.

The end of this par tic u lar pas sage re calls the sen tence in the Haggada: “Amalek...in his
wan ton ness un der took to de stroy the whole world.”

These in vad ers from Ara bia oc cu pied Syria and the south of Pal es tine, and si mul ta neously
moved to ward Egypt. They con quered Egypt WITHOUT MEETING RESISTANCE. Velikovsky
adds:

The Amalekite con quer ors came from Ara bia, but ap par ently they had Hami tic blood in
their veins. They were a na tion of herds men and roamed with their large herds from field to
field....Their dom i na tion over many coun tries of the Near and Mid dle East en dured, ac cord -
ing to var i ous reck on ings, FOR ALMOST FIVE HUNDRED YEARS....(ibid, p.93).

The re cord of an EYEWITNESS to the in va sion of Egypt has come down to us in the form
of the Pa py rus of Ipuwer. It is un cer tain how this pa py rus, con tain ing the words of Ipuwer, was dis -
cov ered. Ev i dently, its first owner (Anastasi) claimed it was found in “Mem phis” or, more prob a -
bly, in the neigh bor hood of the pyr a mids of Saqqara. The Mu seum of Leiden in the Neth er lands
pur chased the pa py rus in 1828; and it is now listed in their cat a log as Leiden 344.

In 1909 a new trans la tion of the text was pub lished by Alan H. Gar di ner, with the ti tle: The
Ad mo ni tions of an Egyp tian Sage from a Hieratic Pa py rus in Leiden.

The au thor of the trans la tion showed that the pa py rus was HISTORICAL in na ture, re veal -
ing that Egypt was in GREAT DISTRESS; the so cial sys tem had be come dis rupted and vi o lence
stalked the land. INVADERS DESPOILED THE DEFENSELESS POPULATION, strip ping the
wealthy of ev ery thing they owned. Gar di ner noted: “It is no merely lo cal dis tur bance that is here de -
scribed, but a GREAT AND OVERWHELMING NATIONAL DISASTER.”

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