Posted on 09/26/2025 9:27:25 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Palestinians pursuing an apology from the UK over colonial-era war crimes allegations have urged the government to respond in light of its recognition this week of a state of Palestine.
The group submitted a 400-page legal petition to the Foreign Office earlier this month seeking an official apology and reparations from the UK.
They represent 13 families who say they were subjected to violence, exile or repression during the period known as the British Mandate in historical Palestine from 1917 until 1948.
Victor Kattan, who speaks for the petitioners, said the government had a responsibility to acknowledge what took place "to advance understanding and knowledge" about its past.
Speaking to the BBC during this week's UN conference in New York, he welcomed Britain's decision to recognise a Palestinian state - but argued it had not properly addressed the UK's historical conduct and legacy.
"Britain denied self-government to the Palestinian community... It empowered a high commissioner to behave like a dictator [and] Palestinian people bore the brunt," he said.
"Recognition alone does not deal with all these historic problems which for Palestinians are not history but the living reality to this day," said Prof Kattan, an expert in public international law at the University of Nottingham.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) would not confirm whether ministers had been made aware of the legal petition saying it did not "routinely comment on" them, although the BBC understands that Deputy Prime Minister and former Foreign Secretary David Lammy is to ask officials to look into the submission.
It documents three decades of alleged abuses by UK forces during mounting violence until 1948, after which the UK rapidly withdrew and the State of Israel was declared.
The alleged abuses by British forces range from murder, torture, expulsion and collective punishment...
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Well done, mates.
I guess this means:
No sugar tonight in my coffee โ
No sugar tonight in my tea ๐ต
We fired once more and
They began a-runnin’
Down the Mississippi
to the Gulf of Mexico
I mean Gulf of America
Just when you thought Labour couldn’t sink to looking any stupider.
Nope.
Never apologize. The next step is the money grab.
Fixed.
Just tell them to sue the Turks first.
Now that the issue has come up of what the British owe to peoples originating in the Middle East, we can consider some historical facts.
If you look at the original Magna Carta of 1215 you will notice that the business of lending money was almost entirely restricted to the Jews. They appear in clauses 10 and 11. Loans are taken from Jews, not banks. Clearly this is due to Medieval Christian principals about the impropriety of using money to make money.
Unfortunately, history tells us that the King of England threw the Jews out in the year 1290. This means all the property of the lending class was confiscated from them except for what they could stuff into their suitcases and travel chests upon leaving.
Throwing the Jews out must have been a great way for the medieval Princes to balance their budgets. The Jews are due compensation for this confiscation! In full!
And the British leaders should not forget that lenders are persnicketty about interest. In this case we are discussing interest for 735 years!
WHO DIDN’T SEE THIS COMING????????
Has the USA exported even
MORE Democrats to England?
I think we should focus on the
Exporting and forget about the
Importing
The UK is making so many mistakes
I’m starting to think that
Sir Keir Starmer is actually
a lab-created clone of the
Bumbling Democrat Joe Biden
Johnny Horton. ๐
Pay up, SUCKA!
@CynicalPublius on the subject of Palestine.
Longer, so I’ll post the link.
https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/1971762280477217103
As usual, well worth the read.
How come they are not going after Muslim Turkey for billions in reparations? The Ottoman Turks ruled Palestine for hundreds of years, before the British Empire ran them out of town.
Turkey is a prosperous nation that can afford reparations. And to the Armenians too.
Oh I’ll have to check that out
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