Secretary of State Blinken and assorted State Department people insist that the United States needs a direct line to the Palestinian Authority.
But there’s no reason for that direct line to be in Jerusalem.
The PLO’s capital is in Ramallah. The 19th century former Christian city taken over by Muslims serves as the capital of the Palestinian Authority. That’s where Mahmoud Abbas, the PA’s leader, who just canceled the latest set of elections, lives. That’s where its government is located.
China’s diplomatic mission to the Palestinian Authority is based out of Ramallah. The Russians and the Germans also have diplomatic missions in Ramallah. Some European countries have their missions set up in Jerusalem and others have them set up in Ramallah.
Whatever your politics are, Ramallah makes the most sense because that’s where the PLO government is actually based.
The only reason to have a US consulate in Jerusalem is to undermine Israel’s sovereignty. It’s not the best way to be in contact with PLO leaders, but it helps the PLO stake a claim to Jerusalem.
The move violates Israeli sovereignty and US law.
Blinken claims that the consulate needs to be in Jerusalem as a “platform to be able to more effectively engage not just the Palestinian Authority, but Palestinians from different walks of life, the NGO community, the business community, and others.”
That’s bizarre.
America’s top diplomatic official is proposing a diplomatic mission based not around the Palestinian Authority, the terror state that he claims to be engaging, but NGO’s, that is non-profit organizations and the “business community”.
Meanwhile, he’s arguing that the US needs to have a consulate to head off another conflict.
This is self-contradictory nonsense whose real rationale is very clearly supporting the PLO’s claim to Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is not under PLO control. Biden and the Democrats would like it to be. But since it isn’t, any consulate to the PLO ought to be set up in Ramallah. Not in the territory of a sovereign country, Israel, that doesn’t want it there.
This is an attack on Israel sovereignty and an attempt to prop up a terror state’s claims to Israel’s capital.
Infidel says
Israel should simply say: “No f?ing way”
libertyORdeath says
Exactly. I know it’s increasingly difficult to deal with this situation in a humane and respectful way, but opening up a consulate for a terrorist organization in the sovereign country that they are trying to wipe from the map is beyond the pale. How dare the Biden administration legitimize a terrorist group by giving them international recognition from the most influential nation on earth.
These types of moves coddling terrorists and virulent antisemites have never worked for anyone. Land for “peace” doesn’t work – we have decades of evidence on that. This will only ever end in one of two ways…either Israel is destroyed, or the “Palestinians” are removed and ignored by the international community. The “two state solution” is a ruse to allow for increased attacks on the only democracy in the Near East.
mortimer says
LOD has expressed the problem exceedingly well: Biden’s people are “opening up a consulate for a terrorist organization in the sovereign country that (the terrorists) are trying to wipe from the map”.
It doesn’t make sense to encourage terrorism. The better option is to give Arabs incentives to join in a harmonious relationship for cooperation within Israel as citizens.
maria says
what can you expect from antisemite and idiot biden and all the demonrats?
New elections before 2024
Jim says
This is another reason why Biden should not have been elected. The Democrats should not have cheated to get him elected. This reveals the falsity of Leftists claims to be against racism and systemic racism. The left manipulates all claims of bigotry to serve their purposes. They are only against it when it is useful to be.
gravenimage says
Biden’s Only Reason to Have a US Consulate to the PLO in Jerusalem is to Undermine Israeli Sovereignty
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Yep.
mortimer says
The Dems are such hypocrites: 1) they DIDN’T want the US embassy in Jerusalem 2) they want the Pally consulate in Jerusalem.
It seems they are prioritizing the Pally terrorists over Israel, doesn’t it?
When will these fools wise up?
OLD GUY says
Now there is a picture of two OLD FOOLS.