The reopening of the American consulate in Jerusalem mulled by US President Joe Biden is a “bad idea” that will send a wrong message to Palestinians and the international community, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has warned.
The US Consulate General in Jerusalem, which had served as America’s de facto embassy to the Palestinians since the mid-1990s, was shut down in March 2019. Then US president, Donald Trump, claimed that the mission had become irrelevant after he controversially moved the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, which is claimed as their capital by both Israel and Palestine.
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