{"id":3318,"date":"2017-12-06T11:53:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T11:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2017-12-06T11:53:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T11:53:12","slug":"crowe-condemns-us-decision-to-declare-jerusalem-as-israels-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-condemns-us-decision-to-declare-jerusalem-as-israels-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe condemns US decision to declare Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has condemned the US Government\u2019s reckless decision to declare Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital and to begin establishing a US Embassy there.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s claim that Jerusalem is the \u2018complete and united\u2019 capital of Israel is in violation of numerous international laws.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI want to add my voice to global condemnation of the reports that US President, Donald Trump, will today declare that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. This is an extremely dangerous, reckless, and worrying move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe status of the city of Jerusalem is one of the most sensitive issues in the region as East Jerusalem is the future capital of the State of Palestine, but it is illegally occupied by Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis unilateral move by the US will have grave consequences for the Israel-Palestine peace process, which was already on life support because of Israel\u2019s continued colonisation of Palestine, continued illegal Israeli colonial settlement building, and the apartheid regime that Israel is enforcing in Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe international community is rightly united in its rejection of Israel\u2019s jurisdiction and ownership of Jerusalem. No country currently has its Embassy to Israel in Jerusalem and plans to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem is a very dangerous and reckless step.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has condemned the US Government\u2019s reckless decision to declare Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital and to begin establishing a US Embassy there. Israel\u2019s claim that Jerusalem is the \u2018complete and united\u2019 capital of Israel is in violation of numerous international laws. Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said: \u201cI want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,358,47,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-jerusalem","category-palestine","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}