Turkey criticized what it said was a feeble Arab reaction to the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, saying on the eve of Wednesday’s Muslim summit in Istanbul that some Arab countries were scared of angering Washington. President Tayyip Erdogan, who has accused the United States of ignoring Palestinian claims to Israeli-occupied east Jerusalem and “trampling on international law”, has invited leaders from more than 50 Muslim countries to agree a response. “Some Arab countries have shown very weak responses (on Jerusalem),” Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed it, an action not recognized internationally. Rouhani said Muslim countries would “undoubtedly voice their protest to the world” at Wednesday’s meeting.

Source: Pakistan Today December 12, 2017 17:03 UTC