Kesher Talk

Former aide to Reagan says U.S. should move its embassy for peace: Former Secretary of State George Shultz (who served under Ronald Reagan's administration) sasy the U.S. needs to move its embassy in Israel to west Jerusalem:

Shultz said that's a way to tell Palestinians that Israel is there to stay and they must stop hoping violence will destroy Israel - and thus a way to change the "underlying attitude" that inspires anti-Israel violence.

"Why not move our embassy to west Jerusalem and be done with it? People should do things that say Israel is there to stay," said Shultz, who served under President Reagan.

"We should say we think a big element in the process of seeking peace is the acceptance of Israel's existence and so we're going to go around to all our friends in Europe and Asia and elsewhere and say let's accept Israel's right to exist - and a way of doing that is to move our embassy to west Jerusalem."

He added: "As long as the embassy is in Tel Aviv, it sort of says we're camping out." (New York Post, June 21)

posted by William @ 7/09/2003 08:58:15 AM