Biden seeks reopening of consulate in East Jerusalem despite Zionist opposition.
Informed sources say that the US President, in a recent meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister, reaffirmed his decision to reopen the US consulate in East Jerusalem.
Although the new Israeli cabinet has repeatedly stated its opposition to the reopening of the US consulate in East Jerusalem, the US government, led by Joe Biden, insists it will do so.
Biden told a recent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House that he would not abandon plans to reopen a consulate in East Jerusalem, Axius News reported Thursday morning.
Informed US and Israeli officials told the website that he had repeatedly raised the issue of reopening the consulate during several meetings with Bennett and their advisers in Washington.
According to Axius, the significance of the matter is that the US Consulate in East Jerusalem had been managing Washington’s relations with the Palestinians for 25 years, but was eventually shut down by former US President Donald Trump.
Senior Bennett cabinet officials see the US decision to reopen the consulate as an unpleasant political issue that could destabilize their shaky cabinet coalition.
“Biden stressed to [Bennett] that the reopening of [the consulate] was his election promise, and that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has already promised to deliver on it,” it said.
According to Axius, the Israeli prime minister also opposed the plan, but suggested that officials on both sides hold meetings to find a solution.
The report concludes that, of course, no steps have been taken to achieve this before November, which means that the two sides have enough time to reach a bilateral agreement in this regard.
The US consulate is located in East Jerusalem and has long been an independent office that was the seat of diplomatic relations with the Palestinians. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis live in Jewish settlements built by the Zionist regime after the 1967 war and the occupation of Palestinian lands in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The United Nations and most of the countries of the world consider the settlements of the Zionist regime illegal because the regime occupied these lands in the war of 1967, and according to the Geneva Convention, any construction by the occupier in the occupied territories is prohibited.
Meanwhile, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid warned a few days ago that the reopening of the US consulate in Jerusalem could destabilize the regime’s cabinet.
