John Ketchup Wants Israel to Grow--Way Smaller

Call it the Ketchup manifesto:

Reacting to Israel’s announcement of 1,200 new housing units in eastern Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that the U.S. “views all of the settlements as illegitimate.” 

Israel is “only building within the borders of communities established before [the 1993] Oslo [Accords] on unallocated land that Jordan illegally occupied from 1948 to 1967, that the UN never recognized as sovereign Arab land,” Morton A. Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, toldJNS.org. 

“Why isn’t Kerry complaining about illegal Arab building [within those borders], and [PA President Mahmoud] Abbas’s racist proclamation that no Jews will be allowed in Palestine?” Klein asked, referring to Abbas’s recent statement that ruled out the “presence of a single Israeli” in a future Palestinian state. 

Sarah Stern, founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), told JNS.org that Kerry’s statement was “almost racist.”

Almost?