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What Is a Consulate That Isn't a Consulate?
Israel ordered the British Consulate General in East Jerusalem closed after the UK banned imports from West Bank settlements. Twenty diplomats left, seven stayed, the plaque came down — and both governments are telling their publics they won. So what is the legal status of an office that is no longer an embassy, a consulate, or a consulate general? We walk through the 1961 and 1963 Vienna Conventions, the interests-section model invented during Rhodesia's 1965 UDI, and Israel's own decades-old practice of running functional-but-unofficial offices like its representation in Taipei. The honest…
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