{"id":2409,"date":"2018-12-18T11:34:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T06:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:34:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T06:04:58","slug":"australia-recognises-west-jerusalem-as-capital-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/australia-recognises-west-jerusalem-as-capital-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia recognises West Jerusalem as capital of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Relevant for prelims and GS mains Paper 2:-<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SCOTTMORRISON.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2410\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SCOTTMORRISON.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SCOTTMORRISON.jpg 960w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SCOTTMORRISON-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SCOTTMORRISON-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SCOTTMORRISON-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/tag\/253-244\/australia\/?utm=bodytag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Australia\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>now recognises West Jerusalem as Israel&#8217;s capital, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday, but a contentious embassy shift from Tel Aviv will not occur until a peace settlement is achieved.<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Morrison also committed to recognising a future state of Palestine with east Jerusalem as its capital when the city&#8217;s status is determined in a peace deal.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAustralia now recognises west Jerusalem \u2014 being the seat of the Knesset and many of the institutions of government \u2014 is the capital of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/tag\/333-244\/israel\/?utm=bodytag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Israel,<\/strong><\/a>\u201d Mr. Morrison said in a speech in Sydney on Saturday.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAnd we look forward to moving our embassy to west Jerusalem when practical, in support of and after final status of determination,\u201d he said, adding that work on a new site for the embassy was under way.<\/li>\n<li>In the interim, Mr. Morrison said, Australia would establish a defence and trade office in the west of the holy city.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFurthermore, recognising our commitment to a two-state solution, the Australian government is also resolved to acknowledge the aspirations of the Palestinian people for a future state with its capital in east Jerusalem,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nBoth Israel and the Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital.<\/li>\n<li>Most foreign nations have avoided moving embassies there to prevent inflaming peace talks on the city&#8217;s final status \u2014 until US President Trump unilaterally moved the US embassy there earlier this year.<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Morrison first floated a shift in foreign policy in October, which angered Australia&#8217;s immediate neighbour Indonesia \u2014 the world&#8217;s most populous Muslim nation.<\/li>\n<li>The issue has put a halt on years-long negotiations on a bilateral trade deal. Canberra on Friday told its citizens travelling to Indonesia to \u201cexercise a high degree of caution\u201d, warning of protests in the Indonesian capital Jakarta and popular holiday hotspots, including Bali. Mr. Morrison said it was in Australia&#8217;s interests to support \u201cliberal democracy\u201d in the Middle East, and took aim at the United Nations he said was a place Israel is \u201cbullied\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevant for prelims and GS mains Paper 2:- Australia\u00a0now recognises West Jerusalem as Israel&#8217;s capital, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-studies-ii","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}