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22 Detroit Jewish News

The political war of attrition over
efforts to move the U.S. embassy from
Tel Aviv to Jerusalem continued this
week as an unofficial deadline
approached for a presidential decision.
In a letter to National Security
Adviser Sandy Berger, Sen. Daniel
Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), a leading
advocate of the move, offered what
Jewish activists here say is a face-sav-
ing compromise.
Moynihan suggested that the presi-
dent formally acknowledge the validity
of the 1995 law requiring the move
and "stress the United States' commit-
ment to relocate our embassy in
Jerusalem at the completion of the
Final Status Negotiations. In the inter-
im the United States would designate
an appropriate site in Jerusalem for
'ambassadorial functions.'"
At the same time the legislator
acknowledged the need to avoid
"actions or statements that may have
negative repercussions on the Israeli-
Palestinian peace process and the cur-
rent Israeli election campaigns."
Moynihan apparently believes that
the administration will be in default if
it doesn't announce a waiver by April
1. There are growing concerns on
Capitol Hill that the embassy question
has become entangled with the
administration's effort to avert a uni-
lateral declaration of Palestinian state-
hood on May 4, the end of the Oslo
interim period.
Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice
chair of the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish
Organizations, said that administra-
tion officials have assured him that
"there will be no linkage to the Arafat
visit or other issues."
Hoenlein, while insisting that the
umbrella organization has not
endorsed the Moynihan letter, said
that "the senator has put forward a
meaningful proposal. Nobody wants
to see a confrontation over Jerusalem,
but if the administration is seen as
thwarting the will of Congress and the
law of the land, there will be a strong
response."

Senatorial Terrorism

Israeli officials hope that this week's
Senate hearings on the Palestinian
Authority's alleged release of terrorists
— including some who have killed
Americans — will correct what they
see as the Clinton administration's