{"id":103272,"date":"2017-12-11T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=103272"},"modified":"2017-12-10T19:34:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T19:34:55","slug":"palestinians-recognize-texas-as-part-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/12\/palestinians-recognize-texas-as-part-of-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians Recognize Texas as Part of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>6 Dec 2017 &#8211; <\/em>In response to US President Donald Trump\u2019s recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, the Palestinian National Authority has announced that it will recognize Texas as a state of Mexico since it was violently annexed by the United States in the 1840s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/texas-mexico-usa-palestine.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/texas-mexico-usa-palestine.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/texas-mexico-usa-palestine.png 600w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/texas-mexico-usa-palestine-250x300.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe territory north and east of the Rio Grande is very important to the Mexican people,\u201d explained a PNA spokesperson. \u201cBefore American settlers showed up and implemented slavery, Mexico oversaw this land. Then, President Polk sent his armies to invade the rest of these Mexican territories, and force the country to give up California, New Mexico, most of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. We may soon recognize these states as part of Mexico too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says that this is a new approach to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/mexican-us-relations\/\" >Mexican-US relations<\/a>, and hopes it will help ease the tension between the two countries over security and immigration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand that the Mexican state of Texas is a sacred place for many large-buckled Americans, but they can rest assured that a two-state solution or a wall was not feasible,\u201d explained Abbas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides, most people in Texas speak Spanish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Trump-and-Abbas-800x600-palestine-usa.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-103273\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Trump-and-Abbas-800x600-palestine-usa-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Trump-and-Abbas-800x600-palestine-usa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Trump-and-Abbas-800x600-palestine-usa-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Trump-and-Abbas-800x600-palestine-usa.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian consulate in Mexico City will soon be moved to Houston to formally recognize the seized territory as part of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>At press time, President Trump hopes that his recognition of Jerusalem as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/israel\/\" >Israel<\/a>\u2019s capital will offer a new path for Middle East violence.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/2017\/12\/palestinians-recognize-texas-part-mexico\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 thebeaverton.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 Dec 2017 &#8211; In response to Donald Trump\u2019s recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that he will recognize Texas as a state of Mexico, since it was violently annexed by the United States in the 1840s. He says that this is a new approach to Mexican-US relations, and hopes it will help ease the tension between the two countries over security and immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":103276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-joke-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}