NEWS: Isreali West Bank New Housing Starts Increase by 1,000, page 1

posted on Aug, 17 2004 @ 02:56 AM

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Sharon OKs 1,000 new settlement homes. Although previously frozen to appease the U.S., Sharon is approving these new housing starts for his own political survival.

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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved building tenders for 1,000 homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank frozen earlier to avoid upsetting the United States, political sources say.

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I thought Israel's economy could not sustain their Army's protection of the settlers? This could turn out to be a matter of being politically penny wise and pound foolish.

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Riwka

posted on Aug, 17 2004 @ 03:31 AM

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Excerpts from the link you provided:

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The sources said the tender package did not flout recent understandings with Washington that any new homes would be built within existing construction lines.

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Originally posted by BOHICA

Any Home Depots in the West Bank?

The disengagement plan entails evacuating the much smaller settler population in Gaza as well as four isolated settlements in the West Bank.

The tenders include 604 homes in Betar Ilit, 214 in Ariel, 141 in Ma'aleh Adumim (will be appended to Jerusalem) and 42 in Karnei Shomron.

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dubiousone

posted on Aug, 17 2004 @ 12:26 PM

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BOHICA asks: >I thought Israel's economy could not sustain their Army's protection of the settlers?<

The US taxpayers will pay for it. Don't you know that yet?