Israel's Foreign Minister Visits Jerusalem - Palestinians Resort to Rejectionism

Yair Lapid, Israel's Foreign Minister, recently visited Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, in the municipality's Old City, for a security tour with local police officials. Although all of Jerusalem remains in sovereign Israeli control, as soon as Lapid's visit became public, the Palestinian leadership immediately condemned the move.

This knee-jerk condemnation, by both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA), is ongoing evidence of the Palestinian leadership's refusal to accept Israel's right to exist in its sovereign capital city, where Jews first established their capital three thousand years ago.