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THE JERUSALEM ISSUE: The request for U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel — and for transferring the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — is gaining more and more attention in the ranks of the Republican and Democratic parties as their national conventions draw closer. It is also gaining more attention in both houses of Congress where legislation has been introduced aiming at making it mandatory for the Administration to relocate the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. At their national conventions, the Democratic and Republican parties will each have to declare its stand on the Jerusalem issue in the party plat- forms. The Democratic Party national convention will prob- ably repeat the text of the plank it adopted at its conven- tions in 1976 and 1980. The text states: "The Democratic Party recognizes and supports the established status of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, with free access to all holy places provided to all faiths." It urges that "Jerusalem should remain forever undivided" and that "the U.S. Em- bassy should be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem." The Republican Party platform adopted in 1980 stated: "Republicans believe that Jerusalem should remain an un- divided city with continued free and unimpeded access to all holy places by people of all faiths." That was it. No mention was made of moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. JEWISH ARGUMENT: The compelling reasons for Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel, and the spe- cial significance which the city — as the capital — has for Jews throughout the world, have been spelled out by the General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council. The CJF Assembly declared in a resolution, "If Ameri- ca's commitment to Israel is to have any clear and unmis- takable meaning, it is long past time for the United States to formally acknowledge Israel's sovereign capital, Jerusalem, and relocate the American Embassy there." The resolution describes Jerusalem as "the heart of the Jewish people" and insists that the city must remain "forever undivided, accessible to all, and an inseparable part of the sovereign state of Israel." It urges the U.S. government "to formally acknowl- edge Israel's just and humane administration of Jerusalem, her scrupulous maintenance of access to all holy places and their protection, her sovereignty over united Jerusalem, and her sovereign right to designate Jerusalem as Israel's capital." The NJCRAC, which concluded its four-day annual conference in Washington on Feb. 29, advances the follow- ing arguments: • Jerusalem occupies a unique and crucial place in Jewish religion, Jewish history and Jewish peoplehood. Throughout their long dispersion, Jews prayed and hoped and longed for the restoration of Jerusalem to the Jewish people as the center of its civilization. The special and unique attachment of the Jews to Jerusalem, as the actual physical place, is not matched in Christianity or Islam. Jews pray for their return to Jerusalem. • Except for brief periods of expulsion, there have al- ways been Jews in Jerusalem; the longest continuing presence in the city is the Jewish presence; for the past century, Jews have been a majority of the population of the city. • Israel is safeguarding the religious, social and cul- tural life of the Christian and Moslem populations in Jerusalem and is assisting the further development of Christian and Moslem institutions in the city. Only since Israel unified Jerusalem has it become a single entity with freedom of movement for all its residents. • Since Jerusalem's unification in 1967, Israel has scrupulously protected the holy places of all religions and assured free access to them. This contrasts strikingly with Jordan's cruel and unlawful denial of Jewish access to Jewish holy places and the desecration of Jewish burial grounds during the Jordanian occupation. In connection with these points, the NJCRAC stresses that Israel's determination to never again allow Jerusalem — as its restored capital — to be divided, does not preclude negotiations concerning the governance of places holy to different religions, and other arrangements.