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British lawmakers urging Poland to pass Holocaust restitution laws
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Published: 25.02.14, 14:23
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1. 8 million murdered in Poland, haven't they suffered enough?
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (02.25.14)
2. What properties??? ,...
split ,   US   (02.25.14)
We know that at the time of the first partition in 1772 except for few loaded ones that bought their nobility with bribes no Jew owned a property in Poland or anywhere in Europe, 147 years later they owned a nice chunk of Poland - There's a legal problem 'their' property deeds they're stamped with occupier's seals. The courts are open to anyone with valid claim, there will be no 'out of court' settlement with a bunch of Claims Conference thieves ,... By the way U. K. government is made of 1,431 seats consisting of 781 Lords Temporal/Spiritual and 650 Members of Parliament (MPs).
3. More to what properties ,...
split ,   US   (02.27.14)
You mean those acquired during 147years of partition and occupation of Poland by Russian, Prussian and Austrian empires for snitching on native patriots to occupier? A stab in the back of a host nation instead of gratitude in return (sic) for an asylum they found in Poland after they got their a$$'s kicked out from other European countries ,... Conveniently omitting a fact that those so called 'communist regimes' in post WWII Poland and Soviet Bloc were made of Stalin Jewish goons or their leftovers in later stage ,..
4. #2 sounds like the problem with all US property titles
jdc   (02.27.14)
Same goes with all church property in Israel. A swap maybe ? The idea is not new: lands lost by Jews in Arab states and Arabs in modern Israel could be counterclaimed and settled.
5. Limited journalism
Sherlock Holmes ,   London England   (02.27.14)
This article gives a very limited piture of the facts. Please see j.post.com for the full facts. The UK Parliament was speaking on behalf of 31 democratic countries committed to Holocaust Remembrance. Britain is this year's rotating chairman and preparing for a Parliamentary debate Thursday. They wrote also on behalf of survivors and heirs living in the UK. Pre-WWII there were 3.5 million Jews living in Poland. Post-WW II there were about 50,000. Many may have escaped, many more did not.
6. #4 ,...
split ,   US   (02.27.14)
The Church was there long before modern Israel existed and will be there after you're gone ,... In regard to properties, no one invited you anywhere, since you have come uninvited, failed to assimilate and bland in you're squatters on foreign soil and don't own anything.
7. Very smart ;) ,...
split ,   US   (02.27.14)
Make the Poles and others believe that if it wasn't for those WWII Polish suckers that risked their and their family life to save Jews there wouldn't be any Jews left and any demands for 'restitution' today ,...
8. It is devastaing
Lucas ,   Tunbridge Wells   (02.27.14)
I totally agree with whiteandred and his answer to this situation that you can read below: Have these Parliamentarians’ forgotten that it was GERMANY that started the WAR and caused the Holocaust and that the NAZIS WERE GERMAN? Poland was on the winning (Allied) side during WW2 but the country lost the war. Poland had the greatest percentage of its population killed and suffered widespread destruction. 90% of Warsaw was rubble. Poland was betrayed by the Allies to 45 years of Soviet oppression and economic stagnation. After the war, it remained occupied by the Russian Red Army. It is also a sad and unfortunate fact that over 37% of the directors of the hated Polish Communist Secret Police were... Jewish. Poland had to rebuild itself after the war. But hey, let's persecute democratic Poland for crimes and confiscations done by German Nazis, Soviet Communists and the "Allied" powers. This letter asking for restitution should have been sent to Berlin or Moscow. Washington and London also having some responsibility. People also forget (or do not know about) the 1.5 MILLION Poles who were deported (by cattle truck) from Eastern Poland to Siberian Slave Labour camps by the Soviets and that the cosy cartel of US, UK and USSR - illegally - moved Polish Borders westwards leaving, for example, the historic Polish city of Lwow in the Soviet state of Ukraine. Did the Poles get any compensation? NO. Incidentally, the Allies were also responsible for the biggest ethnic cleansing in history when 10-12 MILLION Germans were evicted from their lands. It is also slightly hypocritical requesting compensation when Israel keeps/kept expanding settlements onto Palestinian lands. Did the Palestinians in Gaza or on the West Bank get compensation from Israel perhaps instead of a massive security barrier wall? It is very complicated. Meanwhile Polish workers in the UK are being made into political footballs whilst they are very busy reducing the UK national debts by paying UK taxes. Apparently in the warped minds of politicians it is OK to pay taxes and NI but this does not entitle a small percentage to any benefits. These benefits have to be paid to the Brits - some of whom have never had a job or paid taxes. If you consider that these hard working Polish people were educated in their own country and if their children are indeed in Poland then there is no burden on the UK education or health system. Polish Bikers Protest yesterday outside No. 10 totally ignored by the British media. It's a strange world.
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