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The United States will allow Americans born in disputed Jerusalem to list Israel as their place of birth on passports and other documents, according to a new policy announced Thursday.
The move came a day after the United States amended science accords signed with Israel to apply to institutions in the occupied West Bank. The changes, enacted days before the US election, appeared to be aimed at shoring up the support of evangelical Christians and other Israel backers.
President Donald Trump’s administration broke with decades of US policy by recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2017 and later moving the embassy there from Tel Aviv, where most other countries maintain their missions.
Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war along with the West Bank, territories the Palestinians seek as part of their future state. Israel considers the entire city its capital while the Palestinians want their own capital in east Jerusalem.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement that the new passport policy was in keeping with the decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Jerusalem-born Americans will be able to specify either “Israel” or “Jerusalem” as their place of birth on passports and official documents.
Those who do not specify their place of birth will be listed as having been born in Jerusalem.
Trump released a plan to resolve the Middle East conflict in January that was rejected by the Palestinians.
The administration has succeeded, however, in improving ties between Israel and other Arab nations. In recent weeks the UAE, Bahrain and Sudan have agreed to normalise relations with Israel, giving Trump a string of foreign policy achievements ahead of the vote.
US Defence Secretary Mark Esper visited Israel on Thursday and met with top Israeli officials.
Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz, who visited Washington last week, said he was “deeply appreciative of our dialogue, which has ensured that Israel now has the tools it needs to contend with destabilising forces in the region.”
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