(San Francisco Jweekly) Stacey Palevsky - After four-and-a-half hours of impassioned two-minute speeches on June 15, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors didn't vote on a resolution condemning Israel for its "military attack" on a Gaza-bound flotilla. To pass, the nonbinding resolution needs a unanimous vote of 11 supervisors. So once Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who is Jewish, expressed his opposition and called for the resolution to be sent to committee, the vote was off - perhaps for good. "This is a success for the Jewish community, for those who turned out to stand against the resolution and for the supervisors, who recognize that...Middle East peace is not going to get solved in the halls of the San Francisco government," said Abby Porth, associate director of the S.F.-based Jewish Community Relations Council. In any event, Mayor Gavin Newsom told the San Francisco Chronicle this week that if the resolution ever reaches his desk, he won't sign it.
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