Donald Trump shuttered the consulate in Jerusalem, when he turned the building into the official U.S. Embassy/Consulate, angering the Palestinians. The Biden administration subsequently promised to reopen a second consulate, despite the fact that doing so would have violated Israeli sovereignty as well as the rules of the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. He was forced to walk back the promise amid Israeli opposition.
Breitbart (h/t Nita) The move reverses the policy of former President Donald Trump, who moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, closed the American consulate in Jerusalem and incorporated its services and management of Palestinian affairs under the embassy’s rubric. Viewing the move as a diplomatic downgrade, the Palestinians refused to have any dealing with the State Department’s Palestinian Affairs Unit.
Citing two U.S. and Palestinian officials, the report said Joe Biden will promote Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr, an Israel-opponent, to the role of special envoy to the Palestinians. The Washington-based Amr will make regular trips to the region and work closely with the Palestinian Affairs Unit (PAU), a U.S. Embassy branch housed in the old Jerusalem consulate building.
The PAU will begin to officially report directly to Amr, rather than to the U.S. ambassador in Israel, the officials told The Times of Israel. The hope is that the Palestinian government in Ramallah will restore ties with the PAU, which it has boycotted since Trump’s move.
The measures at restoring ties comes ahead of Biden’s trip to the region next month.According to the report, the moves may not be enough to quell the despair felt by the Palestinians towards the Biden administration over its failure to deliver on its campaign promise of reopening the consulate.
It cited three Palestinian officials as saying that Ramallah may respond to the broken promise by refusing to reform its so-called pay-for-slay policy paying salaries to convicted terrorists and their families. (They never have and never will. Yet Biden restored all the funding to them that Donald Trump had ended)
The report said:
In May 2021, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the administration would begin the process of reopening the Jerusalem consulate. But the US faced immediate pushback, first from then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then from his successor Naftali Bennett, who argued that a mission serving Palestinians operating from Israeli territory was an encroachment on the Jewish state’s sovereignty. Supporters of the move noted that it was simply a return to the decades-old status quo and that over roughly a dozen other countries have similar offices serving the Palestinians in Jerusalem.
The report finished by outlining “Israeli authorities proposed that the US reopen the mission in Ramallah or Abu Dis in the West Bank, but these ideas have been rejected out of hand by the PA, which views East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.”
Andrew+Blackadder says
Riddle me this :: Which country in the World sends lots of money to a people that despises them?.
Linda Rivera says
It’s the depth of evil to give the dirty, demonic fiends, the Palestinian Authority Muslim terrorist organization hundreds of millions of US Tax Dollars.
Horrifying and Heartbreaking. The Biden regime also gifted $40 Billion to Ukraine. Money desperately needed by Americans. God help our hungry, homeless Americans.
Look at the pics.
Homeless, defenseless young American women are being violently beaten and raped in the streets.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10858659/Disney-homelessness.html
Homeless at the gates of Disney: Thousands are living in motels, encampments and even their cars – in the shadow of the ‘Most Magical Place on Earth’ amid soaring rent prices and post-pandemic unemployment.
Thousands of homeless people are estimated to be living in the shadow of Disney World near Kissimmee, Florida after falling on hard times during the pandemic.
Among them are locals as well as newcomers that moved to the Sunshine State believing their lives would improve in an area dominated by Disney’s wealth, only to find rocketing rent prices beyond their reach.
Many have moved into one of the run-down motels lining the busy US Route 192 that runs past the direction of the theme park, while others are living in encampments in the woods or even in their cars.
Forklift truck operator Demarco Jones, 40, moved into a room at the Paradise Inn with his five young children and girlfriend after being forced into debt and losing his Winter Park apartment when his work hours were cut
Steve Rumph, 50, told DailyMail.com he had also lived in the motel before deciding to move into his beat-up 2006 Lincoln Towncar – which he finds more comfortable – stationed at the parking lot of a Wawa
Rumph lives off disability benefits but said he has also resorted to a drastic way to make ends meet: ‘I’m starting to sell my plasma. I get $800 a month for four donations. I hope I can keep going with that’
Barbie Austria, who runs the Kissimmee Poinciana Homeless Outreach, ‘Taking women off the streets is crucial, because they are raped, they are beaten,’ she said. ‘Most of them are too afraid to press charges because the guy will just retaliate.
‘I’m currently helping out a woman in her 30s she was stabbed six times in the back and left for dead. The guy almost gouged an eye out.’
Linda Rivera says
It’s Excessively Wicked, SATANIC, and a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY to Force American Taxpayers to finance the Palestinian Authority Muslim Terrorist Organization.
The HOLY ONE, our Glorious, Awesome Creator, will Severely Punish all perpetrators and enablers. They’ll spend all of Eternity in FIERY HELL.
Bible, Romans 12:19
“VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord.
Linda Rivera says
Quran (3:56) – “As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help.”
ENDANGERING AMERICA. ENDANGERING ISRAEL
OPERATION MUSLIM TERRORISTS WELCOME
There is only one reason why the George Soros puppet/Obama puppet, the Clintonj’s puppet, Bill Gates, Puppet, Fauci Puppet Biden, and his regime that seized power over Americans, imported almost one hundred thousand Afghan Muslims and plan to import a LOT more.
US rulers want their adored imported Soldiers of Islam to wage daily jihad and perpetrate lots of terrorist attacks on Americans.
Barbarian savage, warlord Mohammad’s army, is paid with free homes, food, medical and dental care, money and permanent welfare by the ruthless US Satanist regime to do so.
Az gal says
Ted Cruz again. Usually either Cruz or Paul talking sense. We should never give the Fakes a cent until they stop pay for slay immediately.