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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Government Relations Dan Pollak released the following:
The ZOA strongly praised Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Representative Lee Zeldin (R-NY) for leading a Bicameral Joint Statement calling on the Biden Administration to reverse its plan to circumvent U.S. Law and create an unofficial U.S. consulate to the Palestinian Arabs in Jerusalem.
ZOA also strongly praised the more than 80 GOP Members of Congress who signed the statement seeking reversal of policies that would erode the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 by moving the Palestinian Affairs Unit (PAU) out of the U.S. Ambassador to Israel’s reporting chain of command and renaming the PAU the “U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs” that would serve as an unofficial U.S. consulate to the Palestinians in Jerusalem.
ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said:
“It is encouraging to see this robust action led by Sen. Hagerty and Rep. Zeldin stand up for the law Congress passed in 1995. Jerusalem must never again be divided, and the policies of the Biden administration are foolishly seeking to reward the Palestinian Arabs despite their intransigence, paying Arabs to murder Jews, naming schools, streets and sports teams after Jew-killers, and refusing to make peace with Israel.
In every country in the world, issues are managed through the U.S. ambassador in that country. To depart from this model only in the case of Israel is a huge mistake clearly calculated to violate the spirit and letter of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, which ZOA worked with Congress to pass.”
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