Yes!!! Barak approves housing units in Ariel
The current spate of social protests in Israel has apparently awakened the Israeli government to three realities. First, that the country needs affordable housing wherever it can find it. Second, that there is no sense to pretending that the 'Palestinians' are going to settle with us today or tomorrow, and therefore holding a large portion of our country out of bounds in the hope of making peace with them. And third, if Israel ever again wishes to be able to contemplate any kind of expulsion of Jews from their homes, the barest minimum of decency requires that it prove that it will resettle them.
These three realities have resulted in a small first step, which will undoubtedly bring condemnation from the Arabs, the Europeans and the US (in that order), to find places to live for Jews. Defense Minister Ehud Barak has approved the construction of 277 housing units in Ariel, a city in Samaria which already has a population of more than 20,000 souls. And 100 of those units will go to Jews who were expelled from their homes in Gaza six years ago.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved a plan to build 277 apartments in the West Bank settlement of Ariel, 100 of them for families evacuated from Gush Katif six years ago.Actions should have consequences. If the 'Palestinians' continue to refuse to come to the table and negotiate in good faith, there may soon be nothing left for them to negotiate.
Barak approved the marketing of the apartments last week, the Defense Ministry announced on Monday. Building permits for the apartments had been awarded previously, but marketing of the apartments had been delayed due to diplomatic concern , Haaretz reported.
Construction of the units is expected to take three years.
More than one-third of the apartments will go to Jewish families removed from their homes in the Netzarim settlement in Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip in 2005.
Ariel is home to about 20,000 Jewish settlers. It is located some 11 miles east of the Green Line.
More about Ariel here.
Labels: Judea and Samaria construction, Palestinian denial of Jewish history, two-state solution
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:13 PM
2 Comments:
YES!!! " If the 'Palestinians' continue to refuse to come to the table and negotiate in good faith, there may soon be nothing left for them to negotiate. "
'nothing left to negotiate' Yes Yes Yes ... For this I say keep protesting you tent dwellers. I think the leftists among those tents are in a quandry. Not quite the way you expected it to go, heh?
So, just out of curiosity. I tend to support building apartments, town houses, houses, etc. on land that is owned by the developer. I am 100% against squatting or fighting the police, etc. Title searches are my motto.
That said and having driven around the northern half of Israel (I still need to get to Be'er Sheva and points south... I've heard that for those of us who like dry lands, that area is fabulous.), I am wondering why the area east of Jerusalem is better than the Negev when it comes to "affordable housing." Following the disengagement in Gaza and the resulting rockets, I could see favoring the East side of Jerusalem as building sites in order to preclude rocket firing from there and to serve as a buffer on the East. But, to only talk about strictly needing more housing... Modi'in is nearby... ???
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