THE FORWARD
In Major Shift, GOP Rejects Two-State Solution, Says Israel Not “Occupier”
by Nathan Guttman
July 13, 2016

Rejecting decades-old policy, the Republican Party approved on July 12 a platform that does not include a call for a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Instead, it defers to Israel to determine whether it is interested in negotiating a deal with the Palestinians, and omits any reference to a solution that would establish an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel…Now the language goes to the convention, where it is unlikely to change…The new Republican platform also takes another step away from the U.S. government consensus on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by stating, “We reject the false notion that Israel is an occupier” in the West Bank territories. READ MORE

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