Last week in New Orleans, the Republican National Committee officially adopted a resolution supporting a one-state solution in Israel-Palestine.
This news came to me via a very trusted source, but both I and my source were puzzled by the fact that we could find nothing in the media confirming this. I called the RNC, but they would neither confirm nor deny.
So, I contacted Cindy Costa, the RNC’s National Committeewoman from South Carolina who was listed as the sponsor of the resolution. Here’s our e-mail exchange:
Me: Dear Ms. Costa,
I am a correspondent for several web-based news outlets, including Inter Press Service. I received the resolution below today, and would like to write an article about it. I just wanted to check with you that this was in fact an officially adopted RNC resolution. Can you please let me know? Thanks.
Costa: Yes it was adopted unanimously by the RNC last Friday at our winter meeting in New Orleans. Cindy
So, that seems pretty clear. I reprint the entire text of the resolution below (and I sent it fully to Ms. Costa so she could confirm the full text), but the key passage is this one:
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the members of this body support Israel in their natural and God-given right of self-governance and self-defense upon their own lands, recognizing that Israel is neither an attacking force nor an occupier of the lands of others; and that peace can be afforded the region only through a united Israel governed under one law for all people.
Repudiating the Two State solution favoured by President Obama, the GOP has adopted the One State solution. Perhaps unintentionally they have nevertheless given a boost to the civil rights movement calling for equal rights for Jews and Palestinians. That is, unless their agenda is the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the Occupied Territories. Which is it to be?
Source: More on the RNC Call for One State
Plitnick adds this commentary More on the RNC Call for One State
Richard Silverstein takes a more pessimistic line Republican National Committee Endorses Elimination of Palestine from Middle East
See also +972 Republican party appears to officially back one-state solution
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