Later, in 2016, the White House issued a press release for Obama attending Shimon Peres' memorial service on Mount Herzl, Jerusalem. The release which originally said "Israel" but was then "corrected" to remove reference to Israel, literally crossing it out:
During Secretary of State Blinken's visit to the Middle East now, three out of four State Department press releases refer only to "Jerusalem" with no country - contrary to standard practice - and only one mentions Israel.
Only when meeting embassy staff does it say Israel, perhaps because it is the US embassy in Israel and it would really be egregious to pretend that the US embassy isn't in the correct country.
This is no oversight - the same pattern is in Blinken's daily schedule, where the name of the country (or, in the case of the Palestinian Authority, the "West Bank") always follows the name of the city - except for Jerusalem, except for that one meeting with embassy staff:
Under the previous administration, events in Jerusalem routinely said "Israel."
It is a little too early to say - the State Department website still says (inaccurately) that the US was the first country to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital - that but it sure looks like the Biden administration is anxious to roll back all of Trump's accomplishments and go back to the absurd situation where the US considered all of Jerusalem - on both sides of the Green Line - to be a final status issue up for negotiations.
