{"id":48255,"date":"2018-10-17T21:41:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48255"},"modified":"2018-10-17T22:06:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T21:06:05","slug":"oic-warns-australia-over-jerusalem-embassy-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/oic-warns-australia-over-jerusalem-embassy-move\/","title":{"rendered":"OIC warns Australia over Jerusalem embassy move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48256\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/OIC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"174\" \/>The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Tuesday warned Australia of \u201cgrave consequences\u201d of relocating the country\u2019s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement, the Jeddah-based body called on Canberra \u201cnot to take such an illegal step, which constitutes a violation of international law and UN Security Council resolutions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">OIC Secretary-General Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen said Jerusalem is part of Palestinian land occupied by Israel in 1967.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c[OIC] rejects any action or attempt that would prejudice the legal status of the occupied city of Jerusalem,\u201d he said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He went on to call on Australia to support the two-state solution with a view to achieving peace and promoting regional and world security.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"alignleft quote-simple \"><p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script> <!-- Automatic size Responsive --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1234237307185872\" data-ad-slot=\"7381563475\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins> <script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that he was \u201copen to\u201d relocating his country\u2019s embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing the city as the capital of Israel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe\u2019re committed to a two-state solution, but frankly, it hasn\u2019t been going that well,\u201d Morrison said. \u201cNot a lot of progress has been made. And you don\u2019t keep doing the same thing and expect different results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Morrison said the idea was suggested to him by former Australian ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma, who is a candidate for the ruling conservative Liberal Party in a by-election Saturday in a Sydney electorate with a large Jewish population.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In December, U.S. President Donald Trump triggered world outcry after unveiling plans to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and declare the city as the capital of Israel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ever since, the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah has rejected any U.S. role in the stumbling Middle East peace process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jerusalem remains at the heart of the Middle East conflict, with Palestinians hoping that East Jerusalem &#8212; occupied by Israel since 1967 &#8212; might eventually serve as the capital of an independent Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/oic-warns-australia-over-jerusalem-embassy-move\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Tuesday warned Australia of \u201cgrave consequences\u201d of relocating the country\u2019s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In a statement, the Jeddah-based body called on Canberra \u201cnot to take such an illegal step, which constitutes a violation of international law and UN Security Council resolutions\u201d. OIC Secretary-General Yousef bin &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48257,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48255\/revisions\/48257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}