Palestinians warn of 'chaos' if US embassy moved to Jerusalem [View all]
Blackmail. Pure and simple. There's no reason an embassy can't exist in west Jerusalem. In no scenario would that ever become any part of a Palestinian state.
BETHLEHEM: A senior Palestinian official warned US president-elect Donald Trump Friday that moving the American embassy to Jerusalem would destroy prospects of peace with Israel and push the region into turmoil.
The remarks by the secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Saeb Erekat, came as Israeli officials praised Trump's decision to nominate hardliner David Friedman as envoy to the Jewish state.
The Palestinians regard east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.
Moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv before a final agreement on the conflict "will be the destruction of the peace process," Erekat told journalists.
He also warned of the potential outcome of moving the embassy and a change in the "longstanding position" of the United States that considers "the settlements as illegal".
"I look David Friedman and Trump in the eye and tell them -- if you were to take these steps of moving the embassy and annexing settlements in the West Bank, you are sending this region down the path of something that I call chaos, lawlessness and extremism," he said.
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http://nation.com.pk/international/17-Dec-2016/palestinians-warn-of-chaos-if-us-embassy-moved-to-jerusalem
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