The following is a true copy of a Resolution adopted by the Executive Council at its meeting on November 12 � 15, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, at which a quorum was present and voting.

 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.

(Completes Resolution A011, passed by the House of Bishops.)

The Rev. Dr. Gregory S. Straub

Secretary of the Executive Council and

The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society

of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America