{"id":953907,"date":"2021-11-02T13:28:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T17:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=953907"},"modified":"2021-11-02T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T17:28:51","slug":"two-hundred-republican-lawmakers-urge-biden-not-to-open-jerusalem-consulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-hundred-republican-lawmakers-urge-biden-not-to-open-jerusalem-consulate\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-hundred Republican Lawmakers Urge Biden Not to Open Jerusalem Consulate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwo-hundred-republican-lawmakers-urge-biden-not-to-open-jerusalem-consulate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=953907&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/e3f36b_jerusalem-consulate-had-served-as-de-facto-embassy-palestinians-oslo-accords.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Two-hundred Republican lawmakers have sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing their opposition to the reopening of the U.S. consulate in eastern Jerusalem, which formerly served as a de factor Palestinian embassy before being permanently shuttered by the Trump administration following its declaration of Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe write today to express our strong opposition to your administration\u2019s proposal to reopen the US consulate general in Israel\u2019s eternal capital, Jerusalem, that would provide separate diplomatic outreach to the Palestinians,\u201d the House Republicans wrote in the letter, spearheaded by&nbsp;Rep. Lee Zeldin (one of two Jewish House Republicans).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to the lawmakers, reopening the US consulate general in Jerusalem \u201cwould be inconsistent with the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 by promoting division of Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour administration would create a misguided situation in which the U.S. would essentially have two separate diplomatic missions in Israel\u2019s capital,\u201d the letter stated. \u201cThe U.S. consulate general in Jerusalem that was established in 1844 was not intended to serve as an outreach to the Palestinians in Israel\u2019s capital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reopening the embassy would also \u201creward and turn a blind eye to the Palestinian Authority engaging in the real obstacles to peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.4214876033058\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump&#8217;s historic Israel policies will endure <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sdZ6srZxE6\">https:\/\/t.co\/sdZ6srZxE6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1352114329882132483?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Only 12 members of the Republican caucus did not sign the letter, which comes days&nbsp;after 35 Senate Republicans sought to introduce legislation preventing the United States from reopening the diplomatic post.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN)&nbsp;, a senior State Department official admitted that President Joe Biden would not be able to reopen the consulate without Israel\u2019s consent, on the basis of the <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/104\/plaws\/publ45\/PLAW-104publ45.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995<\/a>&nbsp;which bars the U.S. from taking any action that would divide Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is regrettable that the Biden administration insists on making moves that divide the United States and Israel when our two nations should be laser-focused on stopping Iran\u2019s terror-sponsoring regime from going nuclear,\u201d Hagerty said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2021\/10\/28\/watch-bidens-state-dept-admits-jerusalem-consulate-needs-israels-consent\/\">noted<\/a> in a Breitbart article at the time, the&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/legal.un.org\/ilc\/texts\/instruments\/english\/conventions\/9_2_1963.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963<\/a>, ratified unanimously by the Senate in 1969, also prevents any country from declaring a consulate without the permission of the host country.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic lawmakers have pressured both the Biden administration as well as Israeli officials to reopen the consulate. According to the Haaretz daily, Palestinian officials have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/us-news\/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-200-republican-lawmakers-to-biden-don-t-reopen-consulate-in-jerusalem-1.10344286\">described<\/a> the consulate as \u201cthe seed of the American Embassy to the future Palestinian state, and a statement about everything related to the administration\u2019s position on Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-hundred Republican lawmakers have sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing their opposition to the reopening of the U.S. consulate in eastern Jerusalem, which formerly served as a de &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}