(Gatestone Institute) Col. Richard Kemp - President Biden's plan to open a de facto U.S. embassy to the Palestinians on Israeli territory will undermine Israeli sovereignty in its own capital city. The new consulate is designed to give hope that one day Jerusalem will be the capital of a Palestinian state. Israel can and rightly should never allow that. As well as betraying Israel, Biden's diplomatic signaling is a betrayal of the Palestinian people. They have suffered too long under a leadership which has consistently refused to entertain all proposals for peace with Israel that could lead to the establishment of their own state. The intended consulate in Israel's capital will motivate PA leaders to double down on their hostility towards Israel, inspiring further violence against Israelis. The Palestinians understand that a U.S. consulate to the Palestinians in Jerusalem is tantamount to a reversal of U.S. recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the city. The writer, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, was chairman of the UK's national crisis management committee, COBRA.
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