More signs of change in the American Jewish community. A leader of the peace bloc in the pro-Israel community comes down on one of its former heroes, Shimon Peres, after Peres reportedly told Joe Biden that he wasn't going to stop settlements from having natural growth, as existing families grow. From Dan Fleshler's blog:
Jeffry Mallow, former President of the Labor Zionist Alliance (now Ameinu), doesn’t buy this logic. In an outraged email, he wrote: “This is disingenuous, discriminatory, hypocritical, and dangerous. Palestinians are regularly denied permits to build homes as their families increase in size. More generally, countries have zoning ordinances. Here in the US, one cannot automatically build new houses or extensions to existing houses. Certainly one cannot automatically increase the size of one’s property as one’s family increases, nor pile an indefinite number of family members into an existing structure. To my knowledge, the same is true in Israel proper. Only the settlers get special treatment.”
