Why didn’t Kerry ask “all sides” in Canada to “maintain calm.”
The answer, of course, is that there supposedly is a difference between terror in Jerusalem and the rest of the world because the United Nations and the entire Western world have excused Arab terror in Jerusalem.
Why?
It has to do with the American foreign policy that is afraid of the Arab world, which has produced what Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman cites as a”worldwide epidemic” of jihad terror.
Jerusalem is not recognized by the United States or any other country as the capital of the country. It is not because the Palestinian Authority wants it is a capital. It has been that way since 1967.
The United States did not recognize Jerusalem as the capital in 1947 because the United Nations Partition Plan excluded it from Jewish hands.
After the Arab world failed to annihilate the fledgling Jewish State in 1948, the U.N. Temporary Partition Lines left western Jerusalem in Israel’s hands.
The United States still did not recognize the city as the capital
When the Six-Day War ended Jordan’s occupation of eastern Jerusalem, which it took without U.N. authorization, the United States again did not recognize Jerusalem as the capital.
It has nothing to do with the “two-state solution” and has nothing to do with the Palestinian Authority, which never was even envisioned in 1948 or in 1967.
That is why Kerry said the United States will work with Canada “to counter violent extremism in North America and elsewhere around the world” while Psaki told ”all sides” – the Palestinian Authority and Israel – “to maintain calm and avoid escalating tensions.”
And that is part of the reason why the global epidemic of Islamic terror will continue.