Posted on 03/03/2019 8:29:33 PM PST by blueplum
JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States has officially shuttered its consulate in Jerusalem, downgrading the status of its main diplomatic mission to the Palestinians by folding it into the U.S. Embassy to Israel.
For decades, the consulate functioned as a de facto embassy to the Palestinians. Now, that outreach will be handled by a Palestinian affairs unit, under the command of the embassy.
The symbolic shift hands authority over U.S. diplomatic channels with the West Bank and Gaza to ambassador David Friedman, a longtime supporter and fundraiser for the West Bank settler movement and fierce critic of the Palestinian leadership.
The announcement from the State Department came early Monday in Jerusalem, the merger effective that day.
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Gaza riots to begin in 3, 2, 1......
“For decades, the consulate functioned as a de facto embassy to the Palestinians. Now, that outreach will be handled by a Palestinian affairs unit, under the command of the embassy.”
The money line. The palis refused to use the same building as the Jews and previous Administrations have played along. President Trump ain’t.
Good.
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About time — for 50 years we’ve had a consulate in East Jerusalem which did not come under the US embassy in Tel Aviv.
Which made for a lot of diplomatic and bureaucratic muddle.
What a mish-mash...
Oh no, how will the Arab street react?
They will say it is a plot by the evil Jews, of course!
when the mohammedans riot, should we shoot them with rubber bullets and tear gas, or lead bullets and frags?
People still dont know the difference between consulate and embassy, sadly. This is somehow no-news as that consulate will just be absorbed into the actual embassy in a safer neighborhood...away from the animals.
MOABs likely would be best.
“For decades, the consulate functioned as a de facto embassy to the Palestinians.
And, there in lies the problem. Decades? 20, 30, 40, 50,
offering services to muslim killers.
I love that term, “Arab Street”.
What does that mean?
The Arabs, due to their lousy governance and lives are always in a state of “perma-rage”.
Who shapes and molds their (mass) thinking if not their own leadership?
Who incites them on a daily basis if not the government controlled media?
Sometimes that rage backfires on the very leaders who created their own mess, namely the “Arab Spring” or civil wars.
Arab leaders have always kept their people down so that their rage can be channeled against Israel or the West.
The Paleostinians keep the Europeans in a state of fear so they will keep funding them by invoking the “powder keg about to explode” warnings.
It’s all lies and a sham - good for the Trump administration.
Stop being a hostage t PLO/HAMAS victim hood mantra.
Thanks blueplum.
yup. Like cheesy elevator music.
Riots could be interesting if you could parachute a bunch of pigs into Gaza, and watch those superstitious idiots run into the Mediterranean in panic.
The media constantly rammed the phrase “Arab Street” down our throats and I despised them for it. Your comments are dead on!
One of my Jewish professors told us a story of how a store apologized because they only had piggy banks and nothing for Jewish Children. She laughingly explained to us that Jewish people can have inanimate objects of pigs in their home or even read The Three Little Pigs. Compare that to Muslims who think dogs and images of dogs scare away Angels.
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