Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during an event of Israel’s Mossad Intelligence Agency, urged the Palestinians to “accept the reality and act for peace and not extremism.” Netanyahu also responded to the various condemnations voiced around the world, asserting that none of those condemnations impress the Jewish state that has had Jerusalem as its capital for 70 years. PM Netanyahu said, “It would be best for the Palestinians to recognize reality and act for the sake of peace, and not for the sake of extremism, and to recognize another fact when it comes to Jerusalem: not just that it is the capital of Israel, we also preserve freedom of worship in Jerusalem for all religions, and we are the ones who preserve this safeguard in the Middle East, in a manner that no one else preserves it, and on which others have also failed, sometimes miserably. Therefore, all of these declarations do not impress us. The truth will out, and many countries will yet recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move their embassies,” the Israeli leader asserted.
