{"id":333200,"date":"2017-11-02T10:24:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T09:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-netanyahu-in-uk-amid-balfour-celebration-protests\/"},"modified":"2017-11-02T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T09:24:32","slug":"presstv-netanyahu-in-uk-amid-balfour-celebration-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-netanyahu-in-uk-amid-balfour-celebration-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Netanyahu in UK amid Balfour celebration protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in the UK to attend the government of Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s \u201cproud\u201d celebrations for the 100-year anniversary of a British document that paved the way\u00a0for\u00a0Israel\u2019s creation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May was to welcome her Israeli counterpart at 10 Downing Street in London on Wednesday, a day before the centenary of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, a short 67-word document named after then British Foreign Minister Arthur James Balfour.<\/p>\n<p>The British government plans to commemorate the event with a banquet in the gilded halls of London\u2019s Lancaster House mansion, which will also be attended by members of the Balfour family.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the trip, and after May turned down numerous requests to call off the celebrations, Palestinian officials and peace activists said they had scheduled a series of protests outside UK embassies around the world to raise awareness about the plight of Palestinians living under&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/11\/02\/540701\/UK-Israel-Palestine-May-netanyahubalfour-celebrations-protest\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in the UK to attend the government of Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s \u201cproud\u201d celebrations for the 100-year anniversary of a British document that paved the way\u00a0for\u00a0Israel\u2019s creation. May was to welcome her Israeli counterpart at 10 Downing Street in London on Wednesday, a day before the centenary of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-333200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}