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December 13, 2017

In Acknowledging the Reality about Jerusalem, the U.S. Helped the Cause of Peace

Protests, violence, and rioting are generally staged or permitted by Arab governments to blackmail the U.S.

Belief is widespread in the Arab world that Jews have no claim—historical, political, or moral—to the city of Jerusalem, writes Haisam Hassanein, an Arab-American born in the Middle East. When Western leaders effectively pay lip service to that belief by refusing to recognize the city as Israel’s capital, they encourage the delusion that the Jewish state might vacate it entirely in a future peace deal. Thus, Hassanein contends, the longstanding U.S. policy of ambiguity has made the acceptance of such a deal less likely:

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