{"id":1765,"date":"2011-09-22T16:35:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T16:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2011-09-22T16:35:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T16:35:59","slug":"hundreds-protest-in-ramallah-against-obamas-un-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/09\/22\/1765\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds protest in Ramallah against Obama\u2019s U.N. speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news1\/palestin_free.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>Around 1,000 Palestinians gathered in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday to protest against U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s speech to the United Nations.  <!--more-->  <br \/>The protesters carried signs deriding the United States and Obama for his address, in which he reiterated his opposition to the Palestinians\u2019 attempt to win U.N. membership for their state, saying there was no \u201cshortcut\u201d to peace.<br \/> \u201cShame on those who pretend to be democratic,\u201d read one banner held up by the crowds who gathered outside the Muqataa, the headquarters of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.<br \/> \u201cAmerica is the head of the snake,\u201d read another placard carried by demonstrators, who massed by a pavilion decked out with the flags of the more than 120 nations who have recognized a Palestinian state.<br \/>The demonstrators were planning to pass by the tomb of the late president Yasser Arafat before heading to Manara Square in the city centre, where at least 15,000 people gathered on Wednesday to support the U.N. bid.<br \/>The Palestinian workers union said it was planning to issue a call for rallies to take place after the main weekly Muslim prayers on Friday outside U.S. embassies across the Arab world.<br \/>Information ministry official Mutawakil Taha accused Obama of sounding \u201clike an Israeli settler,\u201d and said his speech came in the context of Washington&#8217;s longstanding defence of Israel at the United Nations.<br \/>\u201cFourty-two U.S. vetos at the U.N. have enabled Israel to continue apartheid in the region and Obama\u2019s speech exposed America, which pretends to support the Arab revolutions,\u201d he told AFP.<br \/>The Palestinian media was equally scathing about Obama\u2019s address, which came two days before Abbas is to formally submit a request that the U.N. admit a Palestinian state as a member.<br \/>Commentators slammed Obama, saying he illustrated the depth of Washington\u2019s bias towards Israel and failed to even mention the suffering of the Palestinians or the ongoing construction of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.<br \/><em><br \/>Source: AlArabiya<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 1,000 Palestinians gathered in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday to protest against U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s speech to the United Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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