Biden insists on opening the US Consulate in East Jerusalem
Yoni Ben Menachem 22.06.2022
The Biden administration is trying to please PA Chairman Abu Mazen and has taken an intermediate step towards the opening of the US Consulate in Jerusalem, which was closed during the Trump administration.
The president will visit Bethlehem where he will be hosted by the PA chairman as he previously hosted President Trump.
Last week, the Biden administration announced bureaucratic changes at the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem to send a reassuring message to the PA chairman that he had not backed down on his promise to open the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, which would effectively symbolize U.S. recognition of East Jerusalem as the future Palestinian state capital. Of President Trump in Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
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