Word: knesset
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...quit Jerusalem as the site of their embassies. The resolution was an expression of the international outrage that has been directed at Israel for trying, in effect, to change the Israeli occupation of parts of Jerusalem into outright annexation. A bill passed by Israel's parliament, the Knesset, in July declared the whole of Jerusalem-including the eastern sector of the city, which was captured from Jordan in the 1967 war-to be the undivided and "eternal" capital of Israel. In response to the U.N. vote, all but three of the countries with envoys in Jerusalem announced that they...
...pressures, in fact, had been considerable. Within days of the original Knesset bill annexing Jerusalem, Saudi Arabia and Iraq announced they would cut all diplomatic and economic ties, including oil shipments, to any country that kept its embassy in Jerusalem. Early last week Kuwait and Libya joined the ultimatum, bluntly giving Holland 30 days to make up its mind. As the recipient of up to a quarter of a million barrels of oil daily from Kuwait alone, the Dutch were in no position to resist...
...Israeli Knesset needed to shake its fist at the rest of the world in defiance and to fulfill some of its "nationalist needs" [Aug. 11]. Are the Jewish vote and money so important that Mr. Carter has chosen to sit idly by while the Israelis irresponsibly deteriorate the Camp David peace process...
Besides, with much of the United Nations voting that the Israelis should give away land that is rightfully theirs, it is not surprising that the Knesset would show Israel's citizens that it will not yield to world pressure...
Coming on top of the Knesset's resolution formally annexing East Jerusalem, the Israeli raid roused a new wave of Arab anger and seemed to deliver another setback to the stalled negotiations on Palestinian autonomy. At the U.N. last week the Security Council, by a vote of 14 to 0 with the U.S. abstaining, approved a much revised resolution condemning Israel for seeking to change the status of the Holy City. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, explaining the American abstention, chided the U.N. for making "useless pronouncements" and said: "We are absolutely and firmly committed to the success...