{"id":980943,"date":"2021-11-07T13:13:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T18:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=980943"},"modified":"2021-11-07T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T18:13:51","slug":"israel-to-joe-biden-open-palestinian-consulate-in-ramallah-not-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-to-joe-biden-open-palestinian-consulate-in-ramallah-not-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel to Joe Biden: Open Palestinian Consulate in Ramallah, Not Jerusalem"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fisrael-to-joe-biden-open-palestinian-consulate-in-ramallah-not-jerusalem%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=980943&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\">Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid delivered a clear message to President Joe Biden on Saturday: Open a consulate for the Palestinians, but in Ramallah, not Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no place for an American consulate that serves the Palestinians in Jerusalem,\u201d Bennett <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/bennett-lapid-in-united-front-no-place-for-us-consulate-in-jerusalem\/\">said<\/a>, adding that position had been unequivocally expressed to the White House.<\/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>\u201cWe are expressing our position consistently, quietly and without drama, and I hope it is understood. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lapid chimed in:&nbsp;\u201cIf the Americans want to open a consulate in Ramallah we have no problem with that.\u201d But \u201csovereignty in Jerusalem belongs to one country \u2014 Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has pledged to reopen 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<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2021\/11\/02\/18562418two-hundred-republican-lawmakers-urge-biden-not-to-open-jerusalem-consulate\/\">200 Republican lawmakers<\/a> sent a letter to Biden expressing their opposition to the move.<\/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.<\/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 the lawmakers said.<\/p>\n<p>Under questioning from Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN)&nbsp;, a senior State Department official has admitted that President Joe Biden would not be able to reopen the consulate without Israel\u2019s consent, on the basis of the&nbsp;<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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2021\/10\/28\/watch-bidens-state-dept-admits-jerusalem-consulate-needs-israels-consent\/\">noted<\/a>&nbsp;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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid delivered a clear message to President Joe Biden on Saturday: Open a consulate for the Palestinians, but in Ramallah, not &#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-980943","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\/980943","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=980943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980943\/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=980943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}