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May 27, 2021       Share:    

Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/netanyahu-to-blinken-we-oppose-consulate-for-palestinians-in-jerusalem-669250

Netanyahu to Blinken: We Oppose Consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem

(Jerusalem Post) Lahav Harkov - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Israel opposes the reopening of a U.S. consulate for Palestinians in Israel, hours before the U.S. went public with its plan to do so in Jerusalem. Netanyahu said Israel would prefer that a consulate to another entity - the Palestinian Authority - not be on Israeli sovereign territory. The Trump administration merged the U.S. consulate for Palestinians into the U.S. Embassy to Israel in Jerusalem in March 2019. The move was mostly symbolic, as most consulate workers continued doing the work they did before, but under the title of the "Palestinian Affairs Unit."

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