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Blog #2 Trump Receives Backlash After Tweet Chief Palestinian Negotiator Sae Erekat ·                  On March 22, 2019 the Haaretz released an article titled, “ Trump's Golan Recognition Will Cause Bloodshed, Top Palestinian Negotiator Warns  , ” written by Jack Khoury . The article discussed the backlash President Trump received from Middle Eastern leaders in regards to a tweet he posted last Thursday recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights. Golan Heights currently occupied Israeli territory and has occupied the area since the victorious war of 1967 against Syria . Following the annex of Golan heights the United Nations came up with the UN resolution 497, which was adopted in 1981 by the Security Council to resolve the issue but Israel never complied.              Saeb Erekat , chief chairmen of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) suggested that this statement could lead to destabilization and bloodshed in the   Middle East . The Egyptian foreign

"US Consulate Merges with Embassy in Jerusalem" by Ma'an News Agency   On March 4, 2019 the Ma’an news agency published an article “ reported on the United States consulate merging with the embassy in Jerusalem ” . This article talks about the controversial moving of the United States consulate of Israel from its original building to same building as the U.S embassy Jerusalem. The decision to merge the US consulate in the same building as the U.S embassy in     U.S Consulate of Israel Jerusalem is in hopes to “form a single diplomatic mission”. The reason behind this controversy stems further back to the even more controversial moving of the US embassy of Israel to Jerusalem recognizing it as Israel’s Capital. This sparked protest among the Palestinian people feeling that the  US government isn’t recognizing eastern Jerusalem as the capital of their future independent state.   So by now merging the U.S consulate of Israel, which had been open to all Israeli c

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