How does the ELCA campaign compare with the U.S.-backed Middle East Road Map?
Although the Peace Not Walls campaign is less specific about internal Palestinian governance matters and comprehensive regional peacebuilding, there are many similarities between the U.S.-backed Middle East Road Map and the Peace Not Walls campaign. Both call for an end to violence and terrorism; an end to the occupation; Palestinian acceptance of Israel’s right to exist; and a negotiated settlement addressing issues (such as borders, the future of Jerusalem, refugees, and settlements) based on UN resolutions. On the other hand, the campaign takes up issues not covered by the Road Map, such as Israeli removal of all settlements beyond the 1967 borders, the need for an international presence in the Occupied Territories (including East Jerusalem), a halt to the construction of the separation barrier on Palestinian lands, conditioning U.S. foreign aid on successful negotiations, the creation of a shared Jerusalem, prohibiting the movement of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, advocacy for the
