{"id":90611,"date":"2021-11-08T17:05:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T15:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=90611"},"modified":"2021-11-07T21:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T19:39:13","slug":"11-05-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=90611","title":{"rendered":"Israel Suggests US Open Consulate for Palestinians in West Bank, Not Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Israel Suggests US Open Consulate for Palestinians in West Bank, Not Jerusalem<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Reuters <\/strong>and Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett reacts during a news conference with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid at the Government Press Office (GPO) in Jerusalem, November 6, 2021. Ohad Zwigenberg\/Pool via REUTERS<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Israel stepped up its public opposition on Saturday to a plan by President Joe Biden\u2019s administration to reopen a US consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem, suggesting such a mission should be in the West Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under former President Donald Trump, Washington closed the Jerusalem consulate and placed its staff within the US Embassy to Israel that was moved to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state and saw the embassy move as undermining that aspiration. Israel considers Jerusalem its indivisible capital.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seeking to repair ties with Palestinians, the Biden administration has said it would reopen the consulate, although it has not given a date.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy position, and it was presented to the Americans \u2026 is that there is no place for a US consulate which serves the Palestinians in Jerusalem. We are voicing our opinion consistently, quietly, without drama,\u201d Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, speaking next to Bennett, proposed reopening the consulate in the de facto seat of Palestinian government in Ramallah, in the West Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf they (the United States) want to open a consulate in Ramallah, we have no problem with that,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Ramallah, the spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected Lapid\u2019s comments.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will only accept a US consulate in Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian state. That was what the US administration had announced and had committed itself to doing,\u201d Nabil Abu Rudeineh told Reuters<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Spokespeople for the US Embassy did not immediately comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last month that Washington would \u201cbe moving forward with the process of opening a consulate as part of deepening of those ties with the Palestinians,\u201d although one of his senior staff also said Israel\u2019s rejection of the plan was an obstacle.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy understanding (is) that we need the consent of the host government to open any diplomatic facility,\u201d Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Brian McKeon said during a US Senate hearing when queried on the consulate standoff.<\/span><\/p>\n

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