{"id":985,"date":"2017-11-03T04:18:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T04:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=985"},"modified":"2017-11-03T04:35:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T04:35:09","slug":"balfour-declaration-at-100-thousands-of-palestinians-march-and-burn-theresa-may-effigy-in-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2017\/11\/03\/balfour-declaration-at-100-thousands-of-palestinians-march-and-burn-theresa-may-effigy-in-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Balfour Declaration at 100: Thousands of Palestinians march and burn Theresa May effigy in protest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘The land does not belong to Balfour. We are Palestinians, and we are living here and we are following our issue till we succeed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Palestinian protesters burn a mock of Prime Minister Theresa May and Arthur James Balfour EPA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets on Thursday in protests across the West Bank marking a century since the Balfour Declaration, Britain\u2019s promise to create a Jewish home in what is now Israel.<\/p>\n

In Ramallah, some 3,000 protesters marched from the city centre to the British Consulate, with many waving black flags and banners with slogans such as \u201c100 years of dispossession\u201d.<\/p>\n

Smaller demonstrations took place in East Jerusalem and elsewhere in the West Bank.<\/p>\n

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