Resolved, The Executive Council, meeting in Chicago,
IL, November 12-15, 2006, reaffirms the Episcopal Church’s commitment to:
1. the
rightful existence of the State of Israel as a nation among nations recognized by
the elected Palestinian leadership;
2. the
rightful existence of a State of Palestine as a nation among nations to be recognized
by the elected Israeli leadership;
3. the recognition of Jerusalem as the
shared capital of the two states with full access to the respective holy sites
of the three Abrahamic faiths;
4. the end of all violence and the
rejection of terrorism and their crippling impact on Israeli and
Palestinian societies;
5. the withdrawal by Israel from all
occupied Palestinian territories as established in 1967 West Bank;
6. the return of all parties to the
negotiating table rather than unilateral action by any party;
7.the eradication of the sins of anti Semitism and all other forms
of racism.
