{"id":27363,"date":"2026-02-27T12:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/farsnews_en\/12323401715957289421\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:10:33","slug":"12323401715957289421","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/farsnews_en\/12323401715957289421\/","title":{"rendered":"Winston Churchill: The Controversial Legacy of a War Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udca0 Winston Churchill: The Controversial Legacy of a War Leader<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd36 The statue of Winston Churchill the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was defaced in central London with the phrase &#8216;war criminal Zionist.&#8217; Churchill who served as Prime Minister during two critical periods notably led Britain through World War II and was an early supporter of Zionism identifying himself as an &#8216;old Zionist.&#8217; His backing for the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which advocated for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine marked a significant point in his political stance.<\/p>\n<p>In 1937 while testifying before the Peel Commission Churchill defended Zionist settlement during a time when Britain was contemplating the partition of Palestine amidst the Arab uprising. He asserted that he could not accept that any &#8216;error&#8217; had been made against the Arab population characterizing the influx of Jewish settlers as a replacement of a &#8216;stronger and superior race&#8217; over what he referred to as a &#8216;lesser manifestation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u270d Fars<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd0e Occupied Palestine News<br \/>\n@ghodsnama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The statue of Winston Churchill the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was defaced in central London with the phrase &#8216;war criminal Zionist.&#8217; Churchill who served as Prime Minister during two critical periods notably led Britain through World War II and was an early supporter of Zionism identifying himself as an &#8216;old Zionist.&#8217; His backing for the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which advocated for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine marked a significant point in his political stance.<\/p>\n<p>In 1937 while testifying before the Peel Commission Churchill defended Zionist settlement during a time when Britain was contemplating the partition of Palestine amidst the Arab uprising. He asserted that he could not accept that any &#8216;error&#8217; had been made against the Arab population characterizing the influx of Jewish settlers as a replacement of a &#8216;stronger and superior race&#8217; over what he referred to as a &#8216;lesser manifestation.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}