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About a week before the 2000 election, Al Gore found himself in a minor flap when a group of Arab Americans said that he told them he opposed moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to the capital, Jerusalem. Earlier in the year, Gore had assured Jewish leaders that he thought the embassy should in fact go to Jerusalem, from Tel Aviv. Gore seemed to be playing both sides of the issue, and the Bush campaign accused him of doing just that.
So Gore's team put out a press release clarifying his position. His longstanding view, it said, was that the embassy should move, but only if it were done within the context of peace negotiations between the Israelis and the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Arab American in Chief: (And a big Democrat, too).