"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...
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