The US is moving ahead with plans to reopen its de facto Palestine mission, the State Department announced Wednesday, despite very public opposition from Israel’s top diplomat.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said earlier Wednesday that reopening Washington’s consulate general in west Jerusalem, which has traditionally served as the US’s diplomatic headquarters for the Palestinians, is a “bad idea.”
“We think it’s a bad idea, and we’ve told America we think it’s a bad idea,” Lapid said in statements cited by The Times of Israel newspaper.
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