On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 10:14:04 -0700 Claudia K White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Activist Mailing List - http://get.to/activist Islamic Jihad Leader Warns U.S. Over Embassy Reuters Jul 31 2000 12:35PM ET BEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of the militant Islamic Jihad group told Washington Monday that moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would be akin to declaring war on the Palestinians. ``The U.S. administration is fully responsible for the consequences of such an act of aggression and should expect a response from the Palestinian people at the proper time and place,'' said Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ramadan Shallah, who is based in Damascus. ``We consider the threats made by Bill Clinton to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem as a statement of war against our people and our Muslim holy sites,'' he told Reuters and the Qatari Al-Jazeera television network from his office in Beirut. President Clinton said Friday he would seriously consider moving the embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, adding that a decision would be made by the end of the year. His comments brought a bloody warning from Lebanon's Islamist Hizbollah guerrilla organization which threatened to destroy the U.S. mission and kill its diplomats if it was moved to Jerusalem. The status of Jerusalem, a city holy to Christians, Muslims and Jews alike, is one of the thorniest issues in Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations. Israel wants the city as its undivided capital while the Palestinians claim the eastern quarter, which was annexed by Israel in 1967, as the capital of a future state. Disputes over Jerusalem were at the heart of the collapse of last week's Palestinian-Israel peace summit at Camp David. The United States and Israel have blamed the meeting's failure on Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who in turn said Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak had wanted him to give up the rights of his people in exchange for peace. Shallah, whose group has killed scores of Israelis in suicide bomb attacks inside the Jewish state, said Clinton's comments on moving the embassy and the failure at Camp David were proof that jihad (holy war) and not negotiations were the way for Palestinians to regain their homeland. ``We consider the U.S. threats related to the embassy as a new call for the Palestinian Authority to stop gambling on negotiations and to start banking on its people and their ability,'' he said. ``Negotiations are a waste of time, they meddle with the future of our people. The only choice we should bank on is jihad and resistance such as that practiced by Hizbollah.'' Islamist Hizbollah (Party of God), backed by Iran and Syria, led the war of attrition against Israel's 22-year-old occupation of south Lebanon, which ended on May 24. Islamic Jihad fighters took part in some Hizbollah operations against the occupation. RTR/NEWS-MIDEAST-JERUSALEM-DC/ Copyright ) 2000 Reuters Limited. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox Support Main Line News~Campaign International ~Classifieds~ http://www.angelfire.com/ut/MainLineClassifieds xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox Claudia White~Main Line News~Human & Civil Rights Campaign Internationale' Free Mumia Abu Jamal~Free All Political Prisoners~End the Drug War!Stop the US Bombing of Vieques & Global Genocide of Indigenous Peoples. 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