UAE to build town for Palestinians at site of Gaza settlements

[Scurrilous]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/603952.html

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"The United Arab Emirates is to build a new town for Palestinians on the site of demolished Jewish settlements once Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip, state news agency WAM said on Sunday.

It said the development, to be named the Khalifa bin Zayed City after UAE President Sheikh Khalifa, would house 30,000 to 40,000 Palestinians at a cost of at least $100 million.
It was not clear where the town would be built."


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"A new neighborhood opened in the northern Gaza Strip earlier this year where the UAE spent some $55 million to house Palestinians whose homes had been destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces since 2000.

Israel has agreed with the Palestinian Authority to demolish all the homes in its Gaza enclaves.

The UAE, an affluent trade and tourism hub in the Gulf, has no diplomatic relations with Israel and links formal ties to the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel."

[Village Idiot]

1. Ya... Right...OK....

"The United Arab Emirates is to build a new town for Palestinians on the site of demolished Jewish settlements once Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip..."


Why don't we just call it "Bantustan?"

[manic expression]

2. Good

Palestinians should have their own land.

[Coastie for Truth]

3. CALL ME RACIST

I think it is incumbent on the Palestinian Diaspora (in the US - those with good jobs in Michigan and California and academia) to be at least as generous with the emerging Palestinian State as the Jewish Diaspora has been with Israel.

I also think it is also incumbent on the "Disinvesting Churches" to target investment into (multiplier investments - see Prof Richard L. Florida) the emerging Palestinian State - as the Unitarian Universalists have announced an intention to do.