A Palestinian businessman has said he will file a petition asking the British government to apologise for war crimes it committed during its mandate of Palestine, according to reports. Munib al-Masri, an 88-year-old billionaire and close friend of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, filed the petition to ask for a formal acknowledgement and apology for abuses during British rule in Palestine from 1917 until 1948. “[Britain’s role] affected me a lot because I saw how people were harassed… we had no protection whatsoever and nobody to defend us,” Masri told the BBC from his home in Nablus…