Hot on the heels of the historic recognition of Israel by the UAE, Serbia and Kosovo announced that they would be opening embassies in Jerusalem. These two countries are also seeking membership of the EU, which the latter has now exploited by warning them against opening the embassies. Hypocritically, some of the EU countries have their missions to the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem (Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Sweden), but deny the Jews the same right. Israel is the only country that is not being allowed to nominate its capital. The embassies in its capital are in the western part of the city, which is not in dispute. Furthermore, throughout its long history Jerusalem has never been the capital of any other country or people other than Jewish Israel. Even during centuries of Ottoman rule Jerusalem was little more than a neglected backwater of the empire. Rather than rejoicing at the moves towards peace the EU continues its war against the Jews. (Illustration: Jews at the Wailing Wall, 1890s)