Britain's recognition of a Palestinian state was quickly followed by a demand for money. Within days, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on the United Kingdom to pay reparations for its administration of the region under the British Mandate between 1917 and 1948. Estimates of the claim reach as high as 2 trillion. Hamas called the recognition a victory.
No good deed goes unpunished.
There is nothing unprecedented in this demand for redress from the beleaguered Palestinian people who have suffered at the hands of Western-backed colonizers for eight decades.
Canada paid $23B in reparations to First Nations children and families: www.canada.ca
Australia paid $279.97m in reparations to its indigenous people: www.aljazeera.com
New Zealand paid NZ$177m in compensation to a Maori tribe: www.theguardian.com
The Treaty of Versailles (signed in 1919) and the 1921 London Schedule of Payments required the Central Powers to pay 132 billion gold marks (US$33 billion at the time which is $605 billion in 2025) in reparations to cover civilian damage caused during the war: en.wikipedia.org
Some bloggers on platforms like drudge.com write posts like Americans, but in reality they are trolling from Israel. On a different blog I exposed one who was living near Zefat, Israel: static3.bigstockphoto.com
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