President Bush delays moving U.S. embassy to Jerusalem

[Scurrilous]

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"President George W. Bush has delayed for another six months moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, citing national security interests, the White House said on Monday.

Congress enacted legislation in 1995 calling for the United States to move its embassy to Jerusalem, but the president can postpone the move every six months due to national security interests. The waiver has been used every six months since the law was passed.

Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War and annexed it in a move not recognized internationally. Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, while Israel considers the entire city as its capital.

There are no embassies in Jerusalem. El Salvador and Costa Rica were the last countries to transfer their embassies to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem, announcing their decisions in August."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/802711.html

[DRoseDARs]

1. Until the status of Jerusalem is finally settled, no one has any business establishing an embassy nt

[aquart]

2. I don't even want to know why this was on the table in the first place.

What an idiotic invitation to a bombing.

[Kagemusha]

3. Congress passed a law

But the law gave the President the option of "delaying" implementation. Regularly. Very regularly.