{"id":29433,"date":"2023-10-27T22:33:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T05:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=29433"},"modified":"2023-10-27T22:33:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T05:33:18","slug":"the-letter-that-led-to-the-founding-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/27\/the-letter-that-led-to-the-founding-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LETTER THAT LED TO THE FOUNDING OF ISRAEL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The letter that led to the founding of Israel | Featured Documentary\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vLIBZ1Fewco?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@aljazeeraenglish\">Al Jazeera English<\/a>&nbsp;Oct 16, 2023 \u2022 #Aljazeeraenglish #Israel #PalestineIn November 1917, Britain\u2019s Balfour Declaration opened the door to the founding of Israel 30 years later. And it has had a major impact on the Middle East. The British government issued a public statement that contained a letter from Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community. He forwarded it to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. It began, \u201cHis Majesty\u2019s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people\u201d and was the first public statement of support for Zionism by a major political power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera English&nbsp;Oct 16, 2023 \u2022 #Aljazeeraenglish #Israel #PalestineIn November 1917, Britain\u2019s Balfour Declaration opened the door to the founding of Israel 30 years later. And it has had a major impact on the Middle East. The British government issued a public statement that contained a letter from Foreign Minister&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/27\/the-letter-that-led-to-the-founding-of-israel\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29435,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29433\/revisions\/29435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}