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"This is not about pushing the US out of the picture. This is about them trying to shape the eventual content of a US led proposal to be more in line" with the Palestinian stance, said a council diplomat.
This should be interesting as it is getting into the realm of push and shove, and although everyone talks about two states with Jerusalem divided, reality is....
"The European Union has a clear and united position. We believe the only realistic solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine is based on two states and with Jerusalem as the capital of both," EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told a news conference.
"The European Union will engage even more with the parties and with our regional and international partners. We will keep working with the Middle East Quartet, possibly in an enlarged format," said Mogherini, citing Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, as well as Norway. "We remain convinced that the role of the United States ... is crucial,"she said.
As had been the case with the US prior to Trump's declaration, the European Union and nearly all its member states do not recognize Israel's claim on Jerusalem as its capital. That's because in 1947, the city had been designated by the United Nations Security Council to remain an international zone, a demilitarized "corpus separatum" a separate body governed by UN troops.
https://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/f...d-on-jerusalem
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