{"id":378872,"date":"2018-09-28T01:49:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T00:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-labour-seeks-an-end-to-israeli-expansionism\/"},"modified":"2018-09-28T01:49:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T00:49:06","slug":"presstv-uk-labour-seeks-an-end-to-israeli-expansionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-labour-seeks-an-end-to-israeli-expansionism\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-&#8216;UK Labour seeks an end to Israeli expansionism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The UK Labour Party\u2019s recent move to boycott any British arms sale to Israel was meant to stop the regime\u2019s illegal expansion into occupied Palestinian territories, a political analyst in London says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a historic move, as a result of the Boycott, Divestment and\u00a0Sanction (BDS) movement which is aimed at stopping the Zionist expansion into other lands, at last a major UK political party, the labor party has agreed to stop supplying arms to Israel,\u201d Rodney Shakespeare, an author and academic from London, said in a phone interview with the Press TV on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare said the significance of the Labour Part&#8217;s new move was much greater than the mere ban on supplying of arms because Israel receives the bulk of its weapons from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He said Labour, which is expected to form the next UK government, clearly \u201crealizes that Israel has no intention at all of going for a two-state solution\u201d to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/27\/575376\/UK-Labour-arms-ban-Israel-expert-view\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Labour Party\u2019s recent move to boycott any British arms sale to Israel was meant to stop the regime\u2019s illegal expansion into occupied Palestinian territories, a political analyst in London says. \u201cThis is a historic move, as a result of the Boycott, Divestment and\u00a0Sanction (BDS) movement which is aimed at stopping the Zionist expansion [&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-378872","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\/378872","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=378872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}