Word: knesset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Knesset concludes an exercise in pointless provocation...
...later, the Israeli Knesset gave final approval to a provocative bill that affirmed the united city of Jerusalem as the country's capital. The gesture was symbolic, since the western portion of the city has served as Israel's capital for 30 years, and the Israelis have occupied the rest of the city since the Six-Day War of 1967. But the bill's effect, as with so many of the dubious actions that have attended the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, was to strengthen Israel's enemies and to confound its allies. Lamented Jerusalem...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat responded swiftly to the Knesset's bill on a unified Jerusalem. He denounced the vote as a violation of the spirit of Camp David and indefinitely suspended Egyptian-Israeli negotiations on Palestinian self-rule. Sadat also sent a secret message to Begin, presumably stipulating a number of conditions that Israel must agree to before the talks could be resumed. Meanwhile, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called for a summit meeting of Arab heads of state to deal with the latest Israeli move...
...Washington, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie reacted sharply to both the U.N. resolution and the Knesset vote. The General Assembly's action, he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee, amounted to nothing less than mischief making, while the Jerusalem bill was "a diversionary tactic." Privately, Administration officials were even more concerned about the drift of events because the provocations and counterprovocations, which to some extent seemed to be outside the control of the participants, raised serious questions about the durability of the U.S. Middle East peace policy in the national-election hiatus. U.S. policymakers have to wonder whether...
...days preceding the inflammatory Knesset action were a time of fear and anger for the Israelis. On Sunday, in the Belgian city of Antwerp, one or more Arab terrorists hurled two hand grenades at a group of 40 European Jewish children and youths on their way to a holiday in the Ardennes. A French boy, 15 was killed, and 18 others were injured, some critically...