“We should say we think a big element in the process of seeking peace [in the Middle East] is the acceptance of Israel's existence and so we´re going to go around to all our friends in Europe and Asia and elsewhere and say let´s accept Israel´s right to exist - and a way of doing that is to move our embassy to west Jerusalem. As long as the embassy is in Tel Aviv, it sort of says we´re camping out.”

— George Shultz

"New York Post", June 21, 2003. http://www.unitedjerusalem.org/index2.asp?id=314507&Date=6/21/2003

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