Herzog okays 350 new homes in Ma'aleh Adumim neighborhood

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Outgoing Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Herzog (Labor) is to publish tenders on Thursday for the construction of 350 housing units in the West Bank settlement city of Ma'aleh Adumim.

Herzog made the decision with the approval of newly elected Labor leader Amir Peretz.

MK Ran Cohen (Meretz) slammed Herzog for this decision and said that it violates Israel's promise to freeze construction in settlements under the roadmap.

Since the beginning of the year, tenders for the construction of 315 housing units in the West Bank have been published.

Haaretz

[papau]

1. Meretz fights the good fight but this train left the station when Bush

gave the letter re facts on the ground and not returning to original borders and major settlement block location would be inside Israel post peace deal.

At this point limiting the settlement blocks to the northern one and to construction of only a corridor to between Ma'aleh Adumim and Jerusalem is about the best that can be hoped for.

It will be interesting to see if the PA can get their act together so as to stop new settlement housing in the A1 area between Ma'aleh Adumim and Jerusalem.

[newyorican]

2. That sucking sound...

is the 2-state solution getting flushed.