An Israeli minister said Monday the Palestinians had no way to block incoming US President Donald Trump from moving his country’s embassy to A-Quds (Jerusalem).

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has said such a move would have consequences as it was a “red line” whose crossing would ruin hopes for a ‘two-state solution’.

But regional cooperation minister Tzachi Hanegbi, of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, said the Palestinians were powerless to stop it.

“What can they do? What can they do?,” he said in a briefing to reporters in Jerusalem.

“There are not going to be any consequences.”

Trump — who takes office Friday — has pledged to acknowledge Jerusalem as the capital of the Zionist entity and relocate the US embassy there from Tel Aviv.

Source: AFP