We are trying to reduce the Palestinian Office in Jerusalem

In recent years, an office in the US embassy in Jerusalem was on a direct communication line with Washington. It was to signal that the United States considers the Palestinian issue important and Israel’s occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip to be separate from Israel.

Now the new US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee decided to close this direct channel, according to US officials, according to those who speak the anonymity to discuss personal discussions. The decision will effectively complete the special status of the Palestinian Office in the Embassy, ​​which sends cables to Washington without demanding approval by embassy leaders.

The cables went to US agencies working on foreign policy and national security. The office, which is not at the embassy’s old Jerusalem, is responsible for the office in the former Jerusalem building, which is in contact with Palestinian officials and Palestinian issues.

The action is one of the most important decisions since Mr. Huckabee came to Israel in April.

Palestinian President Lamela Lamela, recently reported the ambassador’s decision after meeting with the Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

After the morning department of the state department, after the morning department asked, the spokesman Tammy Bruce, Mr. Ruby’s “Complete” to the embassy “Combining the responsibilities of Palestinian issues”, he said. He added that Mr. Huckabee will control the combination in the coming weeks.

During the country and democratic presidents, the State Department, the State Department preserved the embassy in Tel Aviv, as the United States was recognized as Israel’s capital. However, the department also operated with the American consulate in Jerusalem, which has a diplomatic mission since the Ottoman period of the US government.

First Trump Office Jerusalem was recognized As the capital of Israel and Moved the US embassy there. He closed the consular operations in Jerusalem. Palestinian affairs were later single to the new embassy and the department remained in the old building and the Palestinian department was changed.

In addition to Israel, the United States has long been lawyers for the establishment of the Palestinian state.

Although Biden’s leadership did not reset the consulate, it renamed the Palestinian issues Palestinian works In 2022, he resumed its unique mechanism to report directly to Washington.

The head of office had authority to confirm the cable written by the staff and sending them to the United States, and the best embassy officials to confirm other cable traffic. The diplomats working in this office drew attention to the calibration of the language and themes they enter into the trophies because they did not want to cancel the power of high-ranking officials.

“Although we use the main issues, we need to be careful not to express it to prevent our independence,” he said.

In October 2023, the Israeli-Gaza war has begun.

Recently, Mr. Huckabee also said that the embassy staff want to meet with Palestine officials in Ramallah at the administrative headquarters of the Palestinian government. This is usually responsible for the leadership of the head of the Palestinian Office. The US ambassador to Israel has traditionally not meet with Palestinian leaders in the United States, and strengthens the United States to see the Palestinian leadership differently from Israel.

In the text message, a large Palestinian Private Hussein Al-Sheikh, said he would not comment on the details of the decision of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, he said.

Hady Amr, who served as part of the US Special Representative for the Palestinian Affairs, violates the ability of the direct line between Palestinian works and the office of Washington’s office.

“The reliability of this channel will be reduced to the reliability, and thus the ability to attract the Palestinian people in the most needed the Palestinian people,” he said.

President of the Palestinian organization Mahmoud Abbas, unlike the more combination approach of Mr. Trump’s first combination, prevented the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and prevention of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He boycotted US officials at that time.

Mr. Abbas was angry with Mr. Trump for the United States to help Jerusalem, Palestinians, Palestinians in Washington and relocated the US official from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Last week, Mr. Huckabee pointed out that the Palestinian works and the US State Department will close a direct report channel.

“Undoubtedly, the unity and a unit should be an order when the work works at the embassy” Mr. Huckabee He told reporters At the syndicate conference in a Jewish news.

Some former embassy’s decision, Mr. Huckabee, said Israel could support Israel’s annexes that the West Coast will be part of the future Palestinian state.

“This is a small step in US policy, including the possibility of supporting the West Bank’s Israeli annexation,” he said.

In 2017, Mr. Huckabee became an ambassador, he He said Israel’s “Heading Header” The West Bank and “West Coast” and “settlement” took the issue.

“There’s nothing like the West Coast,” Mr. Huckabee said. “There is nothing like a settlement – the communities, are neighborhoods, they are cities. There is nothing like an occupation,” he said.

Last week she Conservative commentator told Ben ShapiroThis school was not a decision for the United States, but as a result, he said.

Again, Mr. Huckabee, the US Senate members in March, his policies will not be carried out in the Middle East, in the Middle East, said that Mr. Trump will not be implemented. In February, Mr. Trump, a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said the Israeli government discussed Israel’s annexes. At that time, “People like the idea” said, but the management still clarified that he did not take a position.

Mr. Trump added that an announcement of the announcement in the announcement is probably the next four weeks, but no was announced.

Michael Crowley Contributing report.