Its Good to be an American!

Just ask this US exchange student in Israel:

After several hours in captivity, American-Jewish student Benjamin Bright-Fishbein was released unharmed early Sunday morning after he was kidnapped by Palestinian gunmen while visiting Nablus on Saturday...In the end however, at close to 2 AM, after apparently realizing they were holding a US citizen, the captors handed Bright-Fishbein over to the PA Preventive Security Service which then transferred him to the IDF at the Hawara Checkpoint...

An IDF source said that Fishbein's US citizenship had saved his life since the "last thing the Palestinians want is to open a new front against the Americans." Had the kidnappers succeeded in abducting an Israeli national the outcome, the source said, would have been very different. "Their decision to release him was because they didn't want to deal with the hot potato otherwise known as the US," the source added.

Who said war never solves anything? Oh, Democrats.

Thanks to James Taranto.