West Bank homes for sale here (So. Florida)

[Scurrilous]

A group supporting Jewish settlements in the West Bank is urging American Jews to buy homes there. Three fairs promoting the sales take place in South Florida today.

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"A Jerusalem-based settler organization today will try to convince some South Floridians to underwrite settlement expansion by either buying or financing the building of West Bank homes.

"It's an investment, but also a statement of ideology," said Alon Farbstein, a representative of Amana, the activist arm of the Israeli settlement movement Gush Emunim. "People are always looking for ways to help Israel."

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"Individual U.S. citizens have purchased homes in the disputed West Bank territories before. But activists from both sides of the political spectrum say that this is the first time the American Jewish community has been targeted to directly subsidize settlement expansion.

A growing number of American Jews are buying property in Israel and the Amana campaign seems to be riding on the current trend. In some upscale Jerusalem neighborhoods, for example, about half of all homes sales are to non-Israelis, many of whom are U.S. citizens.

But unlike other building projects in Israel, the Amana campaign is not meant to provide Americans with vacation homes in the Holy Land, but rather allow settlers to live in the West Bank for a price they can afford."

http://www.miamiherald.com/884/story/44682.html

[DRoseDARs]

1. So, they want private US citizens to help them commit violations of intl. law? Isn't that nice...

They could at least wait until the pooled blood has dried. :thumbsdown:

[breakaleg]

2. So if "official" US policy is no more expansion of settlements, then how can these fairs be allowed

to continue in the US?

[cali]

3. That is an excellent question

I wonder who it should be directed to. This is disgusting.

[Tom Joad]

4. I have no doubt President Obama or Edwards or Hillary will continue the same policy

unless there is a mass movement to end occupation in this nation. Most presidents have officially opposed the expansion (and even existing settlements... up until Clinton/BushII) but have done NOTHING to stop the expansion. at the expense of peace for all.

[cali]

5. I don't agree

I don't know what the policies of an Edwards, Obama or Hillary would be, but I do believe that any of those three will be better than bushco.

[Tom Joad]

6. This is from past experience... but we agree (once again) that we don't want to see

this continue. Being a prediction, it certainly can be incorrect.

Still, judging from past history... the next president will not interfere with Israel's settler policy.

Only Bush the First do anything in that regard, he actually threatened to hold up aid to Israel.

No one else has ever done that. Clinton's policy was worse than any President before him... BushII somehow set even lower standards.