They’re unequivocally against it. The plan violates international law.
Guterres’s call was echoed by other leaders and foreign ministers addressing the virtual meeting, warning that Israel’s unilateral action could trigger a major escalation in the region.
In the first video clip, presidential spokesperson Kellyanne Conway looks back at the movement of the US Embassy to Israel to Jerusalem and says that there was no great, violent reaction, so what’s the big deal? The problem is that neither was the relocation of the embassy followed by anything resembling diplomatic progress. It was a purely one-sided “deal” that delivered 100% of its benefits to the Israelis and gave Palestinians nothing.
Annexation would, again, be a completely one-sided “deal” that would give Palestinians nothing.
