As their anti-Semitism tramples their sense of a common Islamic threat, Christian countries tend to prefer Muslim to Jewish control of Jerusalem.
The US State Department officially confirmed its issue of a demarche to the Israeli ambassador over a minor private project in East Jerusalem.
Russia and France called on Israel to halt the construction. We might suggest they cease their occupation of the Kuril Islands and Corsica first.
Germany called the Israeli construction in Jerusalem “a political suicide.” That option is much preferable to the ideological suicide of abandoning Jerusalem.





