Texas Gov. George W. Bush refused to support moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, according to Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America. “I’m worried it will screw up the peace process,” Bush said, according to Klein, who had a brief conversation with the Republican presidential candidate at a fund-raiser Tuesday in Newark. On Wednesday, one of Bush’s pollsters released, along with a Democratic counterpart, a survey for the Israel Policy Forum which reported that 52 percent of American Jews support a recent decision by President Clinton to postpone moving the embassy.
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