BuzzFeed: With Democrats trying to put out a fire around the party platform’s lack of specific language backing Israel that appeared in the 2008 version, a Democratic source points out that Republicans also toned down elements of their stance on Israel in the document. There are also elements of the 2008 Republican platform absent from the 2012 version.
The key sentence present in 2008 and missing in 2012 is: “We support Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel and moving the American embassy to that undivided capital of Israel.”
