{"id":1913,"date":"2017-11-25T11:19:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T12:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/us-reverses-move-to-close-palestinian-office-in-dc\/"},"modified":"2017-11-25T11:19:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T12:19:52","slug":"us-reverses-move-to-close-palestinian-office-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/us-reverses-move-to-close-palestinian-office-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"US reverses move to close Palestinian office in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The United States backtracked on an announcement that Palestinian offices in Washington, DC, would be closed, following Palestinian threats to sever all communication with the Americans.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe US order last week to close the Palestine Liberation Organization (<\/span>PLO<\/span>) office was in response to efforts by Palestinians to indict Israeli officials at the international court, over illegal settlement expansion and violent crimes, aljazeera.com reported. <\/span><\/p>\n


\n\tHowever, the US State Department announced a reversal on Friday, saying the PLO office in the US capital would be allowed to operate for at least the next 90 days.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n\tThe US had \u201cadvised the PLO Office to limit its activities to those related to achieving a lasting, comprehensive peace\u00a0between the Israelis and Palestinians,\u201d State Department spokesman Edgar Vasquez told reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n\tPalestinian Authority President\u00a0<\/span>Mahmoud Abbas<\/span> said at the United Nations in September that the Palestinians “called on the International Criminal Court [ICC] to open an investigation and to prosecute Israeli officials for their involvement in settlement activities and aggressions against our people”.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n\tIllegal\u00a0<\/span>Israeli settlements<\/span>\u00a0in the Palestinian territories have expanded exponentially in recent years. And, for the first time in two decades, a new Israeli settlement is being built in the West Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n\tSince 1967, the regime has transferred between 600,000 and 750,000 Israelis into the occupied territories.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n\tThe office closure announcement\u00a0<\/span>ignited an angry response from the Palestinians<\/span>\u00a0who threatened to cut all communication with US officials, thereby thwarting US President Donald Trump’s efforts to broker Middle East peace.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n\tTrump’s adviser, Jared Kushner, has been working on a peace plan to present to both sides in the coming months.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n\t“We, therefore, are optimistic that at the end of this 90-day period, the political process may be sufficiently advanced that the president will be in a position to allow the PLO office to resume full operations,” Vasquez said.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n\tA legal requirement enacted in 2015 said the US cannot allow the Palestinians to have a Washington office if they support investigations of Israelis for alleged crimes in Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n\tWhile\u00a0<\/span>Israel<\/span>\u00a0is not a party to the Rome Statute \u2014 the treaty of the ICC to which all members are bound \u2014 Israelis could be tried by The Hague-based court for crimes committed on Palestinian territory.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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