US Merges Embassy with Consulate in Jerusalem, One More Measure Taking the Israeli Side Against Palestinian Rights, October 22, 2018

US Merges Embassy with Consulate in Jerusalem, One More Measure Taking the Israeli Side Against Palestinian Rights

October 22, 2018

Editor's Note:

While brutal force has been used to create Zionist Israel and sustain it thus far, Zionist claims to Palestine are false. Actually, from the five thousand years of known written history, there has been a continuous Palestinian-Canaanite presence in the Holy Land. Despite the Zionist false claims, the ancient Israelites ruled part of the land for only 85 years (during the reign of David, Solomon, and Solomon's son).

After that, the Egyptians conquered Palestine-Canaan in 925 BC, followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, before the Arab Muslim rule, starting from 636 AD.

By the Time Jesus started his mission, the three population groups of Canaanites, Palestinians, and Israelites were melted together in religion and language. Most of them became Christians when Constantine converted in 313 AD. Then, most of them became Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

So, Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews are the ones who have the right to claim descent from ancient Israelites, Palestinians, and Canaanites, not Zionists from other continents.

The following news stories are just examples of the Israeli occupation government violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.

More detailed news stories can be found at the following sources: https://english.palinfo.com/, http://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/

US to Merge New Embassy with Jerusalem Consulate

October 19, 2018 7:33 PM IMEMC News & Agencies

The United States announced, on Thursday, that it will merge the US Consulate General, which serves Palestinians, with its new embassy into a single diplomatic mission in Jerusalem, to solely “improve the efficiency and effectiveness.”

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, in a statement, “This decision is driven by our global efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our operations.

“It does not signal a change of US policy on Jerusalem, the West Bank or the Gaza Strip.”

Pompeo said, according to Ma’an News Agency: “We will continue to conduct a full range of reporting, outreach, and programming in the West Bank and Gaza as well as with Palestinians in Jerusalem through a new Palestinian Affairs Unit inside the US Embassy Jerusalem.”

He reiterated that the US Trump administration was committed to peace efforts between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

The announcement followed several controversial and highly criticized steps taken by the US Trump administration which include the closure of the PLO office in Washington, the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, ending all funds to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), and most recently cancelling $20 million in aid to Palestinian hospitals in occupied East Jerusalem.

The fate of Jerusalem has been a focal point of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades, with numerous tensions arising over Israeli threats regarding the status of non-Jewish religious sites in the city, and the “Judaization” of East Jerusalem through settlement construction and mass demolitions of Palestinian homes.

International consensus has been that Jerusalem’s status should be settled in a peace deal and recognizing it as a capital for either side would prejudice one party over the other. So far, the US and Guatemala have moved their embassies to Jerusalem, in addition to Australia, whose prime minister recently announced that it is considering recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

In August, Trump spoke at a campaign rally, during which he explained the reason to why he had recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, “Every time there were peace talks, they never got past Jerusalem becoming their capital, so I said let’s take it off the table.”

Trump also emphasized that Israel would be expected to pay a higher price and make heavy compromises in future negotiations with Palestine, in order to solve the Palestinian issue. “In the negotiation, Israel will have to pay a higher price because they won a very big thing, but I took it off the table,” he added.

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