Reply To: Agudah Supports Palestinian Statehood

The Agudah’s emailed response can only be characterized as a partial retraction to their January 28 statement which I quoted in my second post on this thread. The January statement was laudatory and approving of the President’s offer for a sovereign State of Palestine, with the Agudah specifically mentioning a sovereign state in a positive light.

I would also dispute the notion that they’ve “never taken a position on a two state solution.” Without any ambiguity, in the 90s and 2000s they were outright opposed to Palestinian statehood. Perhaps, as they now wrote, nothing they said in their statement last week reacting to President Trump’s peace proposal was intended to convey such an endorsement, but unintentionally they’ve shown that their position has shifted over the decades — slowly but ever so surely, even if not so perceptibly.