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| US holding off on reopening Jerusalem consulate amid strong pushback from Israel |
| 2021-12-16 |
| [IsraelTimes] But the US Embassy’s Palestinian Affairs Unit is now reporting directly to DC, as the shuttered Jerusalem mission did until 2019, in a partial revival of the pre-Trump status quo It’s been seven months since US Secretary of State Antony Blinken notified Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of the Biden administration’s plan to reopen the US Consulate in Jerusalem, but Washington has yet to even produce a timeline for when it plans to see the move through. A US diplomat, a former senior US official and another source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel this week that the Biden administration has effectively shelved its effort to resurrect the de facto mission to the Palestinians shuttered by former president Donald Trump in 2019. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 some countries with consulate offices in Ramallah: Germany India Canada Japan Malta South Korea USA could do this too - only reason to open in Jerusalem in to insult Israel |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2021-12-16 17:03 |
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| Posted by: Captain Carrot 2021-12-16 14:05 |
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| Posted by: Captain Carrot 2021-12-16 02:33 |