Report: Biden to Violate Vienna Convention, Open ‘Consulate’ for Palestinians in JerusalemJoel B. Pollak 25 Oct 2021
President Joe Biden is moving ahead with plans to open a U.S. consulate in western Jerusalem despite Israeli objections that doing so would violate Israeli sovereignty and violate the rules of the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
In 2017, President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city, and in 2018 he moved the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv, fulfilling a promise repeatedly made — but never kept — by both Democratic and Republican administrations.
Though critics predicted violence, that decision was followed by improved relations between Israel and the Arab world, and in 2020 the Trump administration presided over the Abraham Accords between Israel and several regional Arab states.
Then-candidate Biden, seeking to appease the growing far-left, pro-Palestinian faction of the Democratic Party, promised in 2020 to “reopen the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem [sic],” which is actually in western Jerusalem, which Israel has governed since 1948. The building was converted into an annex of the main Jerusalem embassy once the new embassy was opened. Biden did not demand any concessions from the Palestinians in return for that or other election campaign promises.
Creating a new U.S. consulate in the same city where the U.S. also has an embassy would be virtually unprecedented. It would also create the impression that the U.S. was insisting on a division of Jerusalem between Israelis and Palestinians — and not along the 1949 armistice lines, but within a portion of Jerusalem that has always been Israeli. (Other countries with “embassies” to the Palestinians have placed them in Ramallah, which is where the Palestinian Authority is headquartered.)
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