{"id":7620,"date":"2008-11-24T08:33:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T05:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=7620"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:24:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:24:37","slug":"nobel-laureate-suspend-israel-from-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/11\/24\/nobel-laureate-suspend-israel-from-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel laureate: Suspend Israel from UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\">Nov 20, 2008 17:31\u00a0|\u00a0Updated Nov 21, 2008 7:49 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">By  ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lead\"><strong> <\/strong> <\/span> <!--INFOLINKS_ON--><\/p>\n<div id=\"artTxtBlock\">\n<div id=\"artTxtMin\">\n<p><strong>Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire says the United Nations should suspend or revoke Israel&#8217;s membership.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7623\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7623\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead McGuire, who arrived in Gaza on the &quot;Free Gaza&quot; boat, left, holds a gift from Hamas Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, right, at his office in Gaza City last month. Photo: AP <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Maguire says Israel should be punished for ignoring a series of United Nations resolutions over the years. <\/strong>Maguire won the 1976 peace prize for her work with Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>She is visiting the Palestinian territories to protest Israel&#8217;s blockade of the Gaza Strip. <\/strong>Israel virtually sealed off the territories after the Hamas took over there in 2007. The closure tightened two weeks ago in response to Hamas rocket fire on Israeli border communities.<\/p>\n<p>Maguire told a news conference Thursday that <em><strong>it&#8217;s time for the international community to take action against Israel.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Last month, Maguire and 27 international protesters sailed into the Gaza Strip in the &#8220;Free Gaza&#8221; boat to bring attention to Israel&#8217;s blockade of the Hamas-controlled territory<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=JPost\/JPArticle\/ShowFull&amp;cid=1226404792074\">www.jpost.com<\/span>, <span class=\"byline\">Nov 20, 2008<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 20, 2008 17:31\u00a0|\u00a0Updated Nov 21, 2008 7:49 By ASSOCIATED PRESS Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire says the United Nations should suspend or revoke Israel&#8217;s membership. Maguire says Israel should be punished for ignoring a series of United Nations resolutions over the years. Maguire won the 1976 peace prize for her work with Catholics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":32532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,155],"tags":[899,898],"class_list":["post-7620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","category-palestinianna","tag-mairead-maguire","tag-nobel-peace-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}