{"id":68004,"date":"2018-06-04T13:16:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T08:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68004"},"modified":"2018-06-04T13:16:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T08:16:50","slug":"palestinian-kids-urge-messi-not-to-come-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68004","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian kids urge Messi not to come to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ramallah, June 4 (TNS): The head of the Palestinian football federation is calling on Arab and Muslim sports fans to burn photos and T-shirts of Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi if he attends a friendly match between Argentina and Israel next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Jibril Rajoub made the call after a demonstration in front of the Argentinian representative office in Ramallah, where he asked Argentina to cancel the match.<\/p>\n<p>The match is scheduled to be played next Saturday at an Israeli soccer stadium in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Malha.<\/p>\n<p>The neighborhood is situated on the site of a former Palestinian village destroyed during the war that established Israel 70 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Messi. Don&#8217;t come. Don&#8217;t whitewash the face of racism,&#8221; Rajoub said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ramallah, June 4 (TNS): The head of the Palestinian football federation is calling on Arab and Muslim sports fans to burn photos and T-shirts of Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi if he attends a friendly match between Argentina and Israel next weekend. Jibril Rajoub made the call after a demonstration in front of the Argentinian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68005,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68004\/revisions\/68005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}