While Jews love Jerusalem; Arabs use it to blackmail the world

Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Jerusalem Day, "This is our home and here we will stay."

The response from Mahmoud Abbas is telling.

Did he say that Jerusalem was Muslim? Did he say that it was Arab? Did he say that Bibi was wrong?

No. Instead of asserting rights because of how much he loves the city that was all but ignored by Arabs when they controlled it, he decided to use the language of blackmail.

President Mahmoud Abbas' spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh told Palestinian news agency Wafa on Monday that there would be no peace or stability in the Mideast unless the Palestinians can claim East Jerusalem as their capital.

Not only no peace in Israel - no peace (or stability!) in the entire Middle East!

When naive Westerners claim that there is linkage between the Israel-Arab conflict and the stability of the entire Middle East, they are channeling the constant blackmail threats of Palestinian Arab leaders to the world.

Why Westerners want to succumb to explicit threats of blackmail by so-called "moderate peacemakers" is probably a question better answered by psychologists.