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III) LEXUS OF LANSING The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection For a personal showing: Call 1-800-539-8748 OR 1-800-LEXUS-4-U Exit 104 off 1-96 • 5709 S. Pennsylvania, Lansing • 517/394-8000 (CALL COLLECT) Just In Time for the Holidays! EMBASSY SHUFFLE page 5 everything. (Well, almost every- thing.) This is not the time to press for a move that is wholly symbolic and that would, because of the passions that Jerusalem's status evokes, further encumber the peace process. All that is per- fectly clear to the Israeli govern- ment, to AIPAC (the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee), and to other re- sponsible actors. So who, then, is pressing for the move? Precisely the folks you'd expect: Those opposing the peace process. The problem is that none of the more sensible actors is pre- pared to publicly oppose moving the embassy. Indeed, there's rarely been a better example of how an emotional issue can be exploited and used to smother reason. For how can Israel's gov- ernment publicly object to the move without subverting its as- sertion that Jerusalem is Israel's capital? How could AIPAC, al- ready buffeted by its hard-core right-wingers, object? And, for that matter, faced with what ap- pears to be a united Jewry, how could the American government object? Most thoughtful people in the pro- Israel camp wisely oppose moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. ly made stationing American troops on the Golan an issue, there's an effort to change Jew- ish language, to declare that "Jerusalem is the eternal and united capital of Israel and only Israel," thereby pre-empting Palestinian claims to Jerusalem. Let that language become our slogan — and any Israeli gov- ernment that tries to negotiate an agreeable solution to the mul- tiple claims on Jerusalem is blocked. But the moment you suggest that Jerusalem's status is nego- tiable, you're identified as a squishy peacenik, notwith- standing the fact that there are a dozen different, imaginative proposals about how the Jerusalem circle can be squared. And who wants to be thought of as "soft" on Jerusalem, the one issue on which there is ostensi- bly a "rock-solid" consensus in the Jewish community? Meantime, we face the imme- diate danger of having the peace process hijacked. Professing their innocence at every step, those who oppose the process never speak their opposition. Instead, they assert positions that have great emotional ap- peal, but that, if adopted, would not accomplish their principal ob- jective. And the mainstream leadership is rendered silent, re- duced to expressing its objections and reservations in whispers and in private and off-the-record con- versations. All this unfolds against the sobering background of a Jerusalem that may be undivid- ed in our rhetoric and in our hopes, but that is plainly divid- ed in present fact. Those for whom a city reunited is more than a pious wish must go be- yond their formulaic orthodoxy and ask, quite bluntly, how to re- move the barriers and how to cre- ate conditions on the ground that will begin to knit the city and its peoples back together. Exclusivism, whether an- nounced by Jew or by Palestin- ian, may satisfy our emotional needs, link us to the old-time songs of longing. But it is not fa- vorable either to peace or to Jerusalem. Leonard Fein is a writer living in Recently, Jewish members of Congress were briefed on the matter by senior people in the pro-Israel camp. They were urged to pass the word that mov- ing the embassy just now is a wretched idea. Or more precise- ly, that it's a great idea whose time has not come. Predictably, these members of Congress expressed their irrita- tion that they were being asked to do that which leaders of the Jewish community were not pre- pared to do. But they should know their critics would give them little protection if — and Boston. when — they eventually are ac- cused of inadequate fidelity to Jerusalem. So now there are two moves afoot: On one side, there's a pro- posal to have Congress pass a The normal deadline for resolution urging that the em- local news and publicity bassy be moved only when the fi- items is noon Thursday, eight nal negotiations are completed. days prior to issue date. 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