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Looks like the election this year will be between two-state Dems and one-state Republicans. Fascinating. Mitchell Plitnick reports (thanks to Paul Mutter):
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.
I don’t see how anyone could read that as anything but a statement in support of a one-state solution.
The key passage was copied word-for-word from the Alan Clemmons resolution.
The precise wording used in the South Carolina state legislature resolution you picked up on here: https://mondoweiss.mystagingwebsite.com/2011/11/did-the-south-carolina-legislature-pass-a-one-state-resolution.html
They said they were going to pass it on, and they did.
“I don’t see how anyone could read that as anything but a statement in support of a one-state solution.”
I can. These folks don’t have, what is it they said Speedy Gonzalez had? Oh yeah, ze brains…
Remember, they came out with a statement that the Republicans were “friends of the negro”, then sent out a correction because they mistakenly didn’t capitalize the word Negro.
I can’t wait for the “clarification”……
“…peace can be afforded the region only through a united Israel governed under one law for all people.”
Great idea! Top that DNC.
Alan Clemmons tweets