{"id":2439,"date":"2017-12-10T02:11:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T02:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2017-12-10T02:11:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T02:11:25","slug":"arab-league-condemns-us-jerusalem-move-israeli-palestinian-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/arab-league-condemns-us-jerusalem-move-israeli-palestinian-conflict-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab League condemns US Jerusalem move | Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/12\/arab-league-condemns-move-dangerous-illegal-171209185754563.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/920\/files\/2017\/12\/857f96e23a9e496ead84074b2503637b_18.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The head of the Arab League has called US President Donald Trump&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/12\/trump-defies-warnings-reckless-jerusalem-decision-171206160643273.html\">decision<\/a>\u00a0to recognise Jerusalem as Israel&#8217;s capital &#8220;dangerous and unacceptable&#8221; and a &#8220;flagrant attack on a political solution&#8221; to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The statement by Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, the regional bloc&#8217;s secretary-general, came at the start of an emergency meeting of foreign ministers from 22 Arab states in Egypt&#8217;s capital, Cairo, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Aboul-Gheit said Trump&#8217;s decision was &#8220;against international law and\u00a0raises questions over American efforts to support peace&#8221; between Palestine and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The shift in US policy &#8220;undermines Arab confidence&#8221; in the Trump administration and &#8220;amounts to the legalisation&#8221; of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders from across the globe made\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/12\/world-reacts-israel-embassy-relocation-plan-171205175133734.html\">similar remarks<\/a>\u00a0in the days before and after Trump&#8217;s announcement on Wednesday. The US president also ordered the US embassy be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>World leaders said the move could derail peace efforts.<\/p>\n<p>During an emergency meeting, UN Security Council members on Friday\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/12\/convenes-emergency-meeting-jerusalem-decision-171208162736190.html\">widely condemned<\/a>\u00a0Trump&#8217;s decision, which\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/12\/tense-scenes-rallies-jerusalem-move-continue-171209134755423.html\">sparked<\/a>\u00a0deadly protests in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrations denouncing the US move were held in a number of other Muslim countries too.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/12\/arab-league-condemns-move-dangerous-illegal-171209185754563.html\">Arab League condemns US Jerusalem move | Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict News | Al Jazeera<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Arab League has called US President Donald Trump&#8217;s\u00a0decision\u00a0to recognise Jerusalem as Israel&#8217;s capital &#8220;dangerous and unacceptable&#8221; and a &#8220;flagrant attack on a political solution&#8221; to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. The statement by Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, the regional bloc&#8217;s secretary-general, came at the start of an emergency meeting of foreign ministers from 22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}