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...maintains 136 embassies around the world, 135 of them in foreign capital cities. The odd nation out: Israel. Jerusalem is the capital, but the American embassy has always been in Tel Aviv, 40 miles northwest, a safe diplomatic distance from the divisive international disputes concerning the status of the Holy City. Now, however, momentum is gathering in Congress for a politically motivated, election-year bill that would require the State Department to move its Tel Aviv embassy to Jerusalem. Last week President Ronald Reagan ventured into this tangled debate with an oblique threat to veto the measure. Said he: "Like...
More recently, King Hussein has been upset by the efforts of Congress to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He was angered by the public debate in the U.S. over the proposed sale of the Stinger missiles to Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Two weeks ago, when President Reagan explained to a United Jewish Appeal audience in Washington why he believed such a sale was necessary, Hussein blew up. What many Americans saw as a bold step by Reagan in an election year seemed humiliating to Hussein. At this point, as the King told TIME editors...
Equally distressing, from King Hussein's viewpoint, is a drive in Congress to force the Administration to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. That bill, pressed by Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, has already gained the support of at least 36 Senators and about 200 Congressmen. It is being sold to lawmakers as a triumph of political common sense: Why not move the embassy 40 miles to the city that has been Israel's capital since 1949, and by so doing gladden the hearts of Israelis and their American supporters...
...move himself and his staff out of town before the riots started. It is not inconceivable that should the bill become law, the U.S. would be obliged to evacuate embassy dependents from all Arab capitals. Because of the sensitivity of this issue, 44 nations maintain diplomatic missions in Tel Aviv, while only Costa Rica has an embassy in Jerusalem...
Sectarian murder, that tit-for-tat madness so familiar to residents of war-torn Lebanon, found a new venue last week in the streets of Israel and the occupied West Bank. In the Israeli port of Ashdod, 22 miles from Tel Aviv, an Arab grenade exploded on a crowded bus, killing three Israelis and wounding ten others. Responsibility for the action was claimed by the Black June terrorist group, a breakaway faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization based in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Only three days earlier, a bus carrying some 60 Palestinian laborers from their West Bank homes...