Middle East Committee Work is Done
The Middle East Peacemaking Committee of the PC(USA)’s General Assembly has finished with its recommendations that will be forwarded to the full assembly sometime in the next few days. (The General Assembly ends on Saturday morning.) The recommendations and the amendments formulated by the committee can be found here. (Click on “committees” and then click on Committee 14 on the left.)
The committee approved a modified version of overture 14-08 (The Middle East Study Committee report) and used this resolution to “answer” other overtures before the committee.
The overtures can still be amended on the floor of the General Assembly, which will be voting on a number of items, most of them not related to the Arab-Israeli conflict, over the next few days.
Snapshots will provide a summary of the General Assembly’s actions on all the relevant overtures after they are voted on.
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