Repair what?

[Muadib]

Were Nazis placed under trial ???

[Muadib]

wheh yuh seh.. dis lawyer is a quack.. ?

[Rudi]

Errr wrong Willi and maudib. "In September of 1952 an agreement was signed between West Germany and the state of Isreal whereby West Germany would pay Israel the sum of three billion dollars over fourteen years. The payments were made to Israel as heir to victims who had no surviving family". You guys can check ' The Reparations Agreement Between Israel And The Federal Republic Of Germany' 1954 American Journal of International Law. The payments to individuals and organizations were in addition to the payment made to the Jewish state.
As an aside in 1956 the reparation payment to Israeli state formed 85% of GDP. Israel used the reparation payment to finance the initial Israeli infrastructure. Maudib this bigger than you stick to the coctail circuit. Willi I'll assume you just didn't know.

[Muadib]

American Journal of International Law ?

Yuh arguing Missa Robinson point... :-)

Walk away.. a good school mi guh...

[Rudi]

Sigh. You are so predictable when proven wrong. Try reading the agreement if you can.

[Muadib]

Proven wrong.

You must first understand what my position is.. start from there..

Question.. was there a legal basis for Reparations to the Jews ?

[Karl]

lazie, slavery in that context is NOTHING NEAR the horror of what was introduced into the new world.

i don't know if it would make a difference of they had known but their point of reference i) taking slaves through tribal conquest and ii) how they treated their own slaves could not prepare them for what took place across the atlantic, i.e. the systematic and systemic destruction of the psyche of black slave in the new world which still has effects some 400+ years later

mmmm?
Were captors tortured and men, women and children killed out of hand by various tribe during and after conquests? ...humane treatment?

Just asking!

...additionally have to agree with Lazie - Slavery is Slavery! ...and under all conditions...any and all conditions...it is systematic and systemic destruction of the psyche!

[Don1]

That's not all the Jews get...to this day the USA, Germany and other nations transfer billions of $$ to Israel and Jewish causes due to their unfortunate experiences at the hands of their fellow Europeans

In fact European Jewry was gifted an entire country by the West (by expelling Arabs from Palestine) due to the Jewish Holocaust

Yuh tink Babylon guh by law?? ... dem duh whe suit dem at any given moment

[Don1]

why ... because I'm man enough to call a spade a spade? .... but at the same time unuh excuse those that sold yuh forefathers into slavery? As mi say ... amusing.

No... because your views on the matter are reactionary and backward... somewhat like the Tea Party's

[Don1]

Up tuh tudeh Jews ah get benefits fram Babylon

[Don1]

wheh yuh seh.. dis lawyer is a quack.. ?

yes...on this issue

[Mosiah]

Slavery in African cultures was generally more like indentured servitude. Slaves were not meant to be chattel of other men, nor enslaved for life. African slaves were paid wages and were able to accumulate property.[contradictory] They often bought their own freedom and could then achieve social promotion, just as freedman in ancient Rome. Some, such as Jaja of Opobo and Sunni Ali Ber even rose to the status of kings. These differences between slavery and traditional indentured servitude were used by Western slave owners during the time of abolition in an attempt to thwart their slaves efforts to free themselves, for example by John Wedderburn in Wedderburn v. Knight, the case that ended legal recognition of slavery in Scotland in 1776. Regardless of the legal options open to slave owners, rational cost-earning calculations and voluntary adoption of moral restraints often mitigated the more vicious uses of slaves throughout history. Unfortunately this rarely extended to the slave traders and transporters, who preferred to weed out the "worthless, weak "individuals.

- Wiki

Slavery is slavery??!?!

[Willi]

Dat is politics not reparations.

Dem did want wash dem hand of that problem (hence country "gift").

As to the $billions in "aid" money, that is to secure di Hile using Israel as a foil. On top ah dat, di Jews got smart and tek over US politics and lobby dem way to all that "vital" aid. Why yuh think Netanyahu can try diss Obama suh?

Babylon got played. LoL

[Willi]

Dat is politics to sekkle an issue and Germany didnt "pay" willingly, dem get forced to pay by the Allied powers. This is all for political purposes.

There is no such politics in our case and the victims and victimizers are long dead. This is equivalent to a statute of limitation. Otherwise, mi have a grouse 'gaint Cain and all his descendants (all ah unno, mi come from the Able line, LoL).

As Don1 seh, we haffi create our way outta dis and stop depend pon Babylonian conscience and largess. As far as dem concerned, all the aid money since independence is reparations enuff and we nyam it off with little to show for it! Time we grow up and create our destiny.

[Don1]

I agree...but I was just illustrating that the so-called "legal arguments" against reparations advanced by the writer of the article are rubbish.

As in everything...it's all about expediency and self interest... not legality