{"id":6747,"date":"2017-02-02T22:39:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T22:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/?p=6747"},"modified":"2017-02-18T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T11:15:00","slug":"2017-year-of-anniversaries-for-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/2017-year-of-anniversaries-for-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 \u2013 Year of Anniversaries for Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/C4Llogo_smallest_CMYK.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"75\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6742\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/C4Llogo_smallest_CMYK-150x75.png\" alt=\"c4llogo_smallest_cmyk\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/C4Llogo_smallest_CMYK-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/C4Llogo_smallest_CMYK-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/C4Llogo_smallest_CMYK.png 354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The Long Shadow of the Balfour Declaration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In May 1916, the Ottoman Empire was collapsing. Diplomats from the imperial powers, Sir Mark Sykes of Britain and Georges Picot of France, secretly carved out the Middle East region with an arbitrary \u2018line in the sand\u2019.\u00a0 It became the basis of the League of Nations plan of July 1922 \u2013 with consequences still felt today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the <strong>Balfour Declaration<\/strong> of 2\u00a0November 1917, whose centenary will be marked this year that determined the fate of the people of Palestine, the land between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea.\u00a0 Sir Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, wrote to Lord Rothschild and stated that the British government views \u201cwith favour the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine \u2026 it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To see full article click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MS-200-January-2017-2016.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Long Shadow of the Balfour Declaration In May 1916, the Ottoman Empire was collapsing. Diplomats from the imperial powers, Sir Mark Sykes of Britain and Georges Picot of France, secretly carved out the Middle East region with an arbitrary \u2018line in the sand\u2019.\u00a0 It became the basis of the League of Nations plan of &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/2017-year-of-anniversaries-for-palestine\/\" class=\"button more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2017 \u2013 Year of Anniversaries for Palestine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6750,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions\/6750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}