The last round of peace talks on a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip collapsed in 2014. At the consulate site, mechanical diggers cleared scrubland as workers posted embassy signs along city roads. Street signs in Israel have sometimes fallen victim to political vandalism, with Jews erasing Arabic or Arabs the Hebrew. An Israeli police spokesman played down such prospects for the U.S. embassy signs. “We’re not guarding the embassy signs but of course there is upgraded security around the embassy which is already being implemented,” he said.

Source: Egypt Independent May 07, 2018 08:48 UTC