US to allow 'Israel' on passports of people born in Jerusalem

Arutz Sheva ^ | 28/10/20 | Gary Willig

[Eleutheria5]

The United States will permit 'Israel' to be listed on the passports of citizens born in Jerusalem, according to a report by Politico.

The move, which was confirmed by a Trump Administration official, could be announced as soon as tomorrow.

Until now, US passport holders born in Jerusalem could not list their country of birth as Israel even if they were born in western Jerusalem due to US policy that the status of Jerusalem was to be determined in negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.

In 2015, the US Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit by parents of children born in Jerusalem demanding that they be permitted to have Israel listed as their place of birth on their passports.

However, in 2017, US President Donald Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. He also relocated the American embassy to Jerusalem in May 2018, ending US policy that refused to recognize any part of Jerusalem as part of the State of Israel.

The change in passport policy comes as the US officially dropped its opposition Wednesday to funding joint research projects in Israel which are conducted in Judea, Samaria, or the Golan Heights.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman met at Ariel University in Samaria Wednesday to sign an agreement on scientific cooperation Wednesday, paving the way for US funding of Israeli projects regardless of their location.

The new agreement nullifies limitations imposed in the 1970s on US-Israeli research cooperation which included a territorial clause, barring the US from providing funding for projects which went beyond Israel’s pre-1967 borders.

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[CondorFlight]

Finally! The State Dept. used to refuse this even for those born in West Jerusalem, which nobody even debated was part of Israel.

[SJackson]

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The big guy won't be happy. Lots of things for him to undo. Which won't be easy.

[Ezekiel]

It’s all in the timing.

Jerusalem - the city of the great king.

[humblegunner]

They should all thank Jesus.

[Songcraft]

"The big guy won't be happy. Lots of things for him to undo. Which won't be easy."

I take it you're talking there about the big guy in the basement.   May he never have anything to say about any of those things (other than his usual nonsensical mutterings, mumblings, and deranged rantings in his basement, while they wheel him over to the table to eat his afternoon mush, which will impact no one else in real life, after he loses).

[hanamizu]

“...which nobody even debated was part of Israel.”

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No, I believe the Palis say that no part of Israel is really a part of Israel. Al Quds has always been a part of Palestine and Jews have never had anything to do with it. They too choose ‘truth’ over facts.

[Jewbacca]

Mine has said Jerusalem Israel for 30+ years.

Both my USA and Israeli passports.

[Impy]

I didn’t know this was a thing. No one got to it till now?

[Eleutheria5]

State Department under Obama was adamant about not calling Jerusalem part of Israel. Under Trump, they finally stopped dragging their feet and did right.

[BillyBoy]

I thought this was "a thing" decades ago. I could have sworn that has been official U.S. policy for sometime. As Jewbacca noted in post #8, his passport in both the U.S. and Israel has listed the birth city as Jerusalem, Israel for 30+ years.

I'm 99% certain that the United States has officially "recognized" all of Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel since the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act. It's just that they didn't have the balls to ENFORCE that until Trump became President and put the gears in place. Until then, they "delayed" moving the U.S. embassay to Jerusalem indefinitely. But even Barack Obama stated in his first foreign policy speech as President that "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided."

Seeing it randomly "announced" that they're listing it as the capitol of Israel on U.S. passports now reminds me of when Jimmy Carter "announced" he quit the SAME Baptist church about three times in a row (in 2000, 2006, and 2010 as I recall), and the GOP Congress "announced" on three separate occasions as well that they had just "ended" the telephone tax from the Spanish-American War.

If this WASN'T U.S. policy until now, what the heck did they use to designate which country Jerusalem is in? Jerusalem, No Man's Land? Jerusalem, Middle East? Jerusalem, [Status Disputed]?

[SunkenCiv]

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman met at Ariel University in Samaria Wednesday to sign an agreement on scientific cooperation Wednesday, paving the way for US funding of Israeli projects regardless of their location. The new agreement nullifies limitations imposed in the 1970s on US-Israeli research cooperation which included a territorial clause, barring the US from providing funding for projects which went beyond Israel’s pre-1967 borders.

As it should always have been.