Get in your car and drive over to Ramallah. It’s a small territory — you’ll get there in plenty of time for lunch.
The law was largely seen as aimed at putting a further obstacle to the US reopening its consulate after former president Donald Trump...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
shuttered the diplomatic mission to the Paleostinians in 2019.
Such insight! That’s why he gets the big bucks.
US President Joe The Big GuyBiden
...46th president of the U.S. The man who made Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter look competent, if only by comparison....came into office pledging to reopen the mission but the move requires Israel’s acquiescence since the building is located in Israel’s sovereign territory in West Jerusalem. Successive governments have refused to sign off on the move, and yesterday’s legislation will likely make it even more difficult to carry out.
"We oppose that legislation, have made clear to them that we oppose the bill and continue to believe that opening a US consulate in Jerusalem would be an important way for our country to engage with and provide support for the Paleostinian people," Miller says.
That’s nice, dear. Here, have a cookie.
He notes that the US continues to engage with the Paleostinian people and the Paleostinian Authority through its Paleostinian Affairs Bureau in the US Embassy in Jerusalem and the Office for Paleostinian Affairs in Washington, which was formed earlier during Biden’s tenure in order to boost ties with the Paleostinians.See? You have no need for that musty old consulate in Jerusalem anyway.
Asked whether the US would consider closing Israeli consulates throughout the US in retaliation for the move, Miller says this is not a move that Washington is considering.