{"id":65307,"date":"2018-05-16T08:54:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T06:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=65307"},"modified":"2018-05-16T08:54:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T06:54:53","slug":"us-embassy-finally-moves-to-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/05\/16\/us-embassy-finally-moves-to-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"US embassy finally moves to Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States (US) administration has officially relocated the country\u2019s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, fulfilling one of Donald Trump\u2019s key promises during his election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>A special US delegation attended the inauguration ceremony on Monday, which coincided with the 70th anniversary of Israel\u2019s founding.<\/p>\n<p>The move infuriated Palestinians and sparked international condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>Previous US presidents, as well as nearly every other country, refrained from opening embassies in Jerusalem, arguing that the city\u2019s final status should first be resolved through Israeli- Palestinian negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s foreign ministry said all 86 countries with diplomatic missions in Israel were invited to the embassy opening today, yet only 33 countries confirmed attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian leaders see East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state and have said that Trump\u2019s move disqualifies the US as a peace mediator.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the embassy move marked a \u201cglorious day\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States (US) administration has officially relocated the country\u2019s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, fulfilling one of Donald Trump\u2019s key promises during his election campaign. A special US delegation attended the inauguration ceremony on Monday, which coincided with the 70th anniversary of Israel\u2019s founding. The move infuriated Palestinians and sparked international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65311,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65307\/revisions\/65311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}