CRIF reaffirms that it is firmly in favour of the existence of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace, inside secure and mutually recognised borders.
As for Jerusalem, the living heart and historic capital of the Jewish people, CRIF emphasizes that it has only been since Israel reunited the city that it has been possible for the three monotheistic religions to have full free access to practice their faith. That is why CRIF considers that Jerusalem can never again be divided.
Israel is a democratic state where everyone, whatever their faith, has the same rights. While several dozen countries declare themselves Muslim, Israel is the only Jewish country. This feature must be accepted, while the potentially bloody utopia of a binational state to which millions of people, including the third and fourth generation descendents of people who fled their homes during the conflict in 1948 cannot be envisaged. It would moreover be totally contrary to the 1947 UN resolution that created two states, one Jewish and the other Arab.
CRIF is pleased with the recent improvements in the economic situation of the Palestinian territories and congratulates those responsible for this. CRIF nevertheless reaffirms that true peace cannot depend on the economy or the border lines alone: it supposes that the teaching of hatred against Israel must stop, because its tragic consequences have always been underestimated. It supposes that the culture of death and murder propagated by Hamas must be eradicated, whereas it has in fact been strengthened even beyond the Gaza territories. It supposes an end to the singular and unjustified stigmatisation of Israel and Zionism in which too many people in our countries have been caught up as they blindly align themselves with radical Islam.
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