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Republicans Also Dialed Back Platform's Israel Language

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The missing language: “Undivided” Jerusalem and an embassy move. Democrats under fire for a similar move.

With Democrats trying to put out a fire around the party platform's lack of specific language backing Israel that appeared in the 2008 version, a Democratic source points out that Republicans also toned down elements of their stance on Israel in the document.

A close ally of Mitt Romney, Jim Talent, beat back an attempt at the platform committee to remove a reference to the two-state solution last month.

There are also elements of the 2008 Republican platform absent from the 2012 version.

The key sentence present in 2008 and missing in 2012 is: "We support Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel and moving the American embassy to that undivided capital of Israel."

In both parties' cases, the revisions don't seem to reflect a dramatic policy shift, but rather attempts by party leadership to avoid foreign policy commitments in the non-binding political document.


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