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...Bulgarian capital of Sofia, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat stood engrossed in animated conversation with a group of three men and a woman. What was remarkable about the informal encounter was that Arafat was chatting with a delegation of four Israelis, two of whom were members of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. So far as anyone could remember, it was the first time Arafat had ever met publicly with representatives of the Israeli political establishment...
...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...
...Israelis took the embassy moves with sorrow, they expressed undisguised anger over the American decision to abstain on the U.N. vote rather than cast its veto. Ignoring the provocative nature of the Knesset vote that had led to the U.N. action, Prime Minister Menachem Begin blasted the U.S. decision as "amazing!" Nor was he in any mood to try to sweeten the atmosphere by making some concession that might get the stalled Palestinian autonomy talks under way again. On the contrary, in yet another action certain to arouse Arab ire, Israel last week announced that it would proceed with...
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...