Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, 9th July 2004

Greens Propose ‘Right of Return’, ‘One-State Solution’

by Leon Cohen
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A small but potentially significant U.S. political party has decided to call for the right of Palestinian refugees to return to homes inside Israel and to encourage the abolition of Israel as a Jewish state and its replacement with a bi-national Jewish-Arab state.

Most news media coverage of last week’s U.S. Green Party convention, held in Milwaukee and attended by about 1,000 people, focused on whether the party would endorse the independent presidential candidacy of consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who had run as a Green in 2000. The party chose instead to nominate its own candidate, attorney and activist David Cobb.

But while that drama was occurring, the party’s international and platform committees drafted, and the convention accepted (in a voice vote by acclamation, according to platform committee co-chair Holly Hart), a new platform that included a two-page “expanded plankâ€