{"id":199465,"date":"2019-12-18T10:07:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T10:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199465"},"modified":"2019-12-22T09:08:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:08:26","slug":"israel-wants-150bn-compensation-for-jews-who-left-arab-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199465","title":{"rendered":"Israel Wants $150bn Compensation for Jews who Left Arab Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.renegadetribune.com\/israel-wants-150bn-compensation-for-jews-who-left-arab-countries\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Renegade Tribune \u2013 Dec 17, 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israel is preparing to claim a total of $150 billion in compensation for the property of Jews who migrated from Arab countries to occupied Palestine, <em>Israel Today<\/em> has reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The process of estimating the property values started in 2002, the newspaper pointed out. It noted that the law to claim compensation for Arab Jews was passed by the Israeli parliament in 2010 as a condition of a regional peace deal; negotiations began with the Arab countries in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to media reports, the compensation claimed will include assets from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya. In January, Israel was reportedly planning to seek an estimated $250 billion from Arab countries after the government in Tel Aviv quietly conducted some research on the value of property and assets that the Jews left behind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Justice for Jews from Arab Countries, an international parent group of Jewish organisations, claims that around 856,000 Jews from 10 Arab countries \u2014 including Algeria and Lebanon \u2014 fled or were expelled during the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20170515-remembering-the-nakba\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>1948 Nakba<\/strong><\/span>,<\/a> when <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/specials\/refugee_journey\/nakba\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>800,000 Palestinians<\/strong><\/span><\/a> were expelled and 532 villages were destroyed by the creation of the State of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to Russian broadcaster <em>RT,<\/em> former British MP George Galloway denounced the Israeli move for compensation. \u201cIsrael bombed and destroyed the nuclear reactors in Iraq some 25-30 years ago. Is Iraq going to be compensated by Israel for that?\u201d the pro-Palestinian Galloway asked. \u201cIsrael occupied and has annexed a part of Syria \u2014 <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20190321-breaking-trump-says-time-for-us-to-recognize-israeli-sovereignty-over-golan\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>the Golan Heights<\/strong><\/span><\/a> \u2014 and it is harvesting oil there as we speak. Is Israel going to compensate Syria for that?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Citing Libya and Iran as examples, he added that some of these countries have got funds frozen in the United Sates. \u201cIsrael could seek to claim these funds by going to US courts. The whole thing would be laughable if it were not for this fact.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the coming weeks, said <em>Maan News Agency,<\/em> it is expected that the compensation project will be presented to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<em>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>This article originally appeared on <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20191216-israel-wants-150bn-compensation-for-jews-who-left-arab-countries\/\">Middle East Monitor<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel to claim $150 billion compensation for the loss of property of Jews who left Arab countries and moved to the Zionist state <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199466,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199465\/revisions\/199466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}