What’s the rationale for saying, as Abbas has just done, that if the US moves its embassy to Jerusalem, the ‘territories’ will erupt in flames - hell, the whole Mideast too for that matter [as if it already isn’t burning]? Of course, Islamist rhetoric about how jihad will eventually cleanse Jerusalem of zionist filth is as common as common can be regardless of Western media pretending it isn’t - but surely, if Abbas, Fatah, Palestinians in general and whomever else one wants to include the in Islamist parade are truly committed to a two state solution then they must also be committed to the idea that Jerusalem, in any putative final status agreement, will be the joint capital of both Israel and Palestine. Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem would simply confirm this ‘fact’ - so why should doing so set the region aflame with Islamist rage? How does that make any sense if one truly believes in a two state solution? Of course it doesn’t because the Islamists don't truly believe in a two state solution and very definitely do not believe Jews have any meaningful claim to Jerusalem - they’ll mouth platitudes to the contrary in order to co-opt the useful idiots of the West but the reality is Islamists do not and will never accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state - unless of course forced to by Israel beating the crap out of them in a war.
It’s tantamount to proof that Abbas et al do not believe in a two state solution [but merely pretend to as a prop wielded to delegitimize Israel in the minds of the West’s useful idiots] to suggest that moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, a inevitable fact irrefutably implied by the notion of two states, would set the region ablaze in outrage. Abbas saying so is in essence him admitting to being full of shit. Israel has steadily moved to the right since Oslo because this reality is obvious to anyone not blinded by progressive naivety or an ideologically driven contempt for the whole idea of Israel.
[I mean, how can it not be obvious to these people that Abbas et al merely mouth support of two states and engage in phoney negotiations thereof because they know Israel can never agree to terms that the Islamists would find acceptable - and when the ‘negotiations’ eventually break down, as they always do, Abbas et al know that the useful idiots of the West and the jackals at the UN will support their view, which is nothing more than propaganda, that Israel is to blame for negotiations failing. This is or should be obvious, so anyone not seeing it is either a naive fool or driven by an ideological contempt for Israel - and with Obama I think it’s both: his foreign policy clearly manifests naive idiocy at almost every turn - but also his ideological roots were definitely steeped in the anti-Western intellectual swamps of the far left]