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Minister: 1,200 New Homes To Be Built In J'lem, West Bank | |||
2013-08-12 | |||
[Ynet] Housing minister Ariel announces apartments up for sale three days before second round of peace talks begins. 'No country takes orders from other countries about where to build,' he says
Nearly 800 of the 1,200 apartments will be built in Jerusalem: 400 in Gilo, 210 in Homat Shmuel and 183 in Pisgat Zeev. The settlement of Ariel will get 117 units; Efrat will get 149; Ma'ale Adumim -- 92 and Beitar Illit -- 36. "The Israeli government is working to reduce the cost of living in all parts of Israel. No country receives orders about where it can and cannot build from other countries," Ariel said. "We shall continue to market apartments all around the country, in the Negev, in the Galilee and in the center, to meet the needs of all the people of Israel. It's the right thing to do both for Zionism and for the economy." Finance Minister Yair Lapid criticized the move calling it a "big mistake." "Solutions for the housing problem should be implemented where there is demand. The use of resources designated for housing for the middle class for the purpose of unnecessarily defying the Americans is not conducive for the grinding of the peace processor."
The statement came after weeks of discussions between Naftali Bennett's Habayit Hayehudi party and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is leading the release of Paleostinian prisoners as part of renewed peace talks. While Minister Ariel considers the move a victory, even his close advisers admit that the process is in the very earlier stages and that construction could take as long as two years to begin. A source at the Habayit Heyehudi said, "There is a media battle in the Right. It's true we won't see construction in the near future but this is a first stage that sets the wheels of bureaucracy in motion after a long period of no construction." | |||
Posted by:trailing wife |
#1 facts on the ground vs Arab demographics. I like land |
Posted by: Frank G 2013-08-12 08:21 |