Joe Biden with his pal Mahmoud Abbas of Palestinian Authority
President Joe Biden is moving ahead with plans to open a second U.S. consulate in Jerusalem just for Palestinians despite the fact that doing so would violate Israeli sovereignty as well as the rules of the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
Breitbart Israel has ruled out allowing a second U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, and under the Vienna Convention, to which both the U.S. and Israel are signatories, it has the right to do so. Article 4 states: “A consular post may be established in the territory of the receiving State only with that State’s consent.”
In 2017, President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city, and in 2018 he moved the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv, fulfilling a promise repeatedly made — but never kept — by both Democratic and Republican administrations. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has said that he will NEVER agree to allow the U.S. to take steps that would divide Jerusalem.
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