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Russia disagrees with US stance on Jerusalem. Will worsen Palestinian-Israeli relations

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A Palestinian protester hurls stones towards Israeli troops during clashes at a protest near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 7, 2017 against U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Hamas leader ca
A Palestinian protester hurls stones towards Israeli troops during clashes at a protest near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 7, 2017 against U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. | Photo Credit: REUTERS
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Russia does not agree with the US position to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told TASS on Thursday.

“We don’t agree with this,” he stressed.

According to Gatilov, this decision by the US “will worsen a general situation in Palestinian-Israeli relations, in the Middle East on the whole”.

“The decision to move the embassy to Jerusalem made by the US administration, President [Donald] Trump is at variance with relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly, and certainly we believe that these are wrongful moves that can only complicate the course of a further development of the situation in the Middle East,” the senior diplomat said.

The issue on the status of Jerusalem should be tackled within the framework of the Palestinian-Israeli dialogue, Russian Ambassador to Israel Alexander Shein also said in a statement.

“Recognizing West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, we do not impose any solutions on the parties concerned. All issues, including the status of Jerusalem, should be resolved at the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations,” the diplomat stressed.

Russia’s stance

The Russian Embassy can be moved from Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem only after all problems related to the status of the Palestinian territories are solved, Russian Ambassador to Israel Alexander Shein stated.

“In practical terms, the Russian Embassy can be moved from Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem once all problems related to the final status of the Palestinian territories are solved,” the diplomat stressed.

“While recognizing West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, we do not impose any solutions on the parties concerned. All issues, including the status of Jerusalem, should be resolved at the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations,” Shein noted.

He recalled that, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry’s statement of April 6, 2017, “the Russian leadership decided to recognize West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.” “This statement is aimed, above all, at reaffirming Russia’s stance in favor of a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli crisis,” he said.

Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump stated that “it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.” He directed the Department of State to start making arrangements to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The status of Jerusalem is one of the key issues of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. Israel established control over the eastern part of the city during the 1967 conflict. It insists that Jerusalem is its single and indivisible capital, while the Palestinians want to make the eastern part of the city the capital of their state.
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2 responses to “Russia disagrees with US stance on Jerusalem. Will worsen Palestinian-Israeli relations”

  1. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    The headline says “Russia disagrees with US stance on Jerusalem.” (Featured News).
    Did the editors studied deeply the Russian military blogs that have other perspective?

    On topwar.ru you can see that the Middle East is portrayed with other perspectives, and believe it or not Russian contempt for the Orthodox Jew is clear as always – blame on the Jews living on and become immortal with the help of the cartoon of Sajjad Jafari – Shiiter against Sunnis
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0b643de1519ae96741e126faa42fc71fbb5ec3038bcc3b2f2edae80ad3a502e5.jpg Shiites against Sunnis

    Military conflicts between supporters of different trends in Islam are more of a political, rather than religious struggle. It is a struggle primarily for power, resources and territories and then for the superiority of some religious dogmas and teachings over others. Just beyond achieving independence in the Arab countries of the 50-60s of the last century in the Arab world, it was considered a great faux passport to ask about the religious beliefs of a person, even though they were evident from their name, accent, place of residence or, say, paintings on the walls. Religious sectarianism was a sign of bad taste, and the creation of an all-Arab and national idea was at the forefront. In the Arab countries, the Sundays, Shiites and Christians lived fairly peacefully, mixed marriages were regarded as norms and widespread.

    Rapid changes in this idyllic image began with the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979.
    It was a turning point in the history of the Arab world and gave an impulse to movement. Shia promised that despite the universal equality still felt in most Arab countries in rights violated. Saddam Hussein’s attack on Iran in 1980, already a third of a century ago, was considered in Arab countries by the Arab war against the Persians. This was the first sectarian war, and was funded by its rich oil permits in the Persian Gulf. It is difficult, of course, to argue with the assertion that the basis for military conflicts on religious differences, but sectarianism is always and everywhere, it was not in itself and has always been associated with the struggle for power, resources and territory. The current conflict in Yemen is no exception. The order of protection of the legally elected authorities in this state in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, belonging to the Sundays, hidden religious differences, since all the members of the coalition are the countries where a majority of the population – the Sunnites and Huthis Shiites and thus few support of shiite iranians But at a depth that is quite small, we can easily see the struggle for power or, more specifically, for the leadership of the Saudi Arabia-Iran region.

    It’s “peaceful”, if I can say so, there are sectarian divisions and the struggle for power and resources, and in the bloody civil war in Syria, which has been going on in the fifth year.

    Notice that in the text it is named “the bloody civil war in Syria”, not any claims about a war against terrorists….

    You can only say that we live since 1963 in https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/92a7a79e33a2db993d5f796663de65513fd0a3cdda075081925d34e4836c8b49.jpg a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

  2. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    Its not only the Russian military blogs that have other perspective regarding the sectarian war between the Sunnites and Shiites.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a31f17430a5231347ad4e172b49cea3f30548a07899e69372ebe9d958d089b1f.jpg
    Arab cartoonists have their own perspective against sectarian war between the Sunnites and Shiites, you can find it on http://www.fundacionalfanar.org/vinetas-arabes-contra-la-guerra-sectaria-entre-sunies-y-chiies/ https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/088b511023738a93bbb5d6b0786611423cbb63fd3fa704a23f65afaa68adc879.jpg
    Al Fanar reflect the plurality of opinions of the Arab world not the opinion of Al Fanar. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/aa1f8e46cd2146cdfd422ce7b717254223e4332750d06094c595c7e2637cfe8e.jpg

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