U.S. Democratic Congressmen are expected to appeal in the coming days to U.S. President Joe Biden to refrain from opening a consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem - contrary to the official position of the United States.
The initiative is being organized by senior members of the House of Representatives, who belong to the mainstream of Biden's party.
At this point they wanted to avoid publishing their name, they claimed so that the move would be successful.
The appeal to Biden is supposed to be public, it must be said.
Senior Democrats' opposition to the opening of the consulate was presented at a meeting with them last week by Chief of Staff Benjamin Binyamin Israel Gantz and Political Adviser on Israel-US Relations Ruth Lieberman.
At the meeting, the two presented the issue, explained that its meaning expresses a future division of Jerusalem and explained that the step that the administration is promoting is contrary to what is accepted in the diplomatic world and contradicts Israeli law and American law.
In response, the Democrats elected to address President Biden and demand a halt to the move.
They said that at this time the president and the Democratic Party have much more important issues to focus on, chief among them Biden's huge program to strengthen the American economy.
It should be noted that so far, efforts to prevent the consulate from opening have only been on the Republican side of the map.
Last week, 35 senators from the rival party initiated a presidential law that would stop the move.
Their attempt to recruit Democrats to support the law did not go well.
This will be the first time senior members of the president's party have spoken out against the opening of the consulate.
Councilman Ganz told Israel Today that "the members of Congress we met understand that the opening of the consulate means a violation of Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem, and even a violation of American sovereignty after the relocation of the embassy at the time was in fact declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel."
Lieberman added: "It turned out that the issue of the consulate is not a party matter. We managed to spur senior members of the Democratic Party who do not hesitate to express opposition to the move. They believe that opening the consulate is a dangerous step for Jerusalem."
The two also attended a meeting with 60 members of the Republican House of Representatives, in which they presented what they called the "Palestinian takeover of the territory," and the need to develop the area for the benefit of all residents.