T. Belman. On August 25/15, INN reported
Leaders of Judea and Samaria expressed their outrage over Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s de facto construction freeze, after reports Monday revealed he cancelled 2,500 housing units in the region and Jerusalem due to international pressure.
“The prime minister vowed to advance programs and start construction, but in reality after this type of (building) advancement is published everything is stopped,” unnamed leaders of Judea and Samaria communities told the Hebrew news site Walla! on Monday.
I asked an insider yesterday about the freeze and he said “what freeze?” He said construction is going on all over J&S. According to this report construction this year has increased 54.8% from last year but it still is insignificant. We should be building thousands of homes not hundreds.
The number of homes built in the West Bank increased 54.8% in the first half of this year, compared with the first six months of last year, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported on Wednesday.
Similarly, there was a 49.6% jump in the number of housing starts in the same period, the CBS said.
Its quarterly release of data comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to London to speak with his British counterpart, David Cameron, about the Quartet’s new push to revive the peace process, which has been frozen since April 2014.
Palestinians insist that they will not hold talks with Israel until it halts all building in West Bank settlements and east Jerusalem. Israel contends that such construction has no impact on a final status agreement for a two-state solution.
In the first two quarters of 2014, ground was broken on 657 new West Bank homes, and an additional 657 units were completed.
In terms of real numbers, the 983 construction starts in the West Bank make up only 3.9% of the 25,099 new housing units nationwide in the first half of 2015. Similarly, the 1,017 finished homes from January to June of this year equal only 4.7 of the overall 21,470 housing units completed the first half of this year.
Still, the growth rate for new construction in the West Bank significantly outpaces that of new building nationwide, which registered a 7.9% increase in housing starts and a 6.9% rise in finishes in the first half of this year, compared to the same time period last year.
Only the southern part of the country, which registered a 78.1 percent leap in new housing starts, outpaced building in Judea and Samaria.
Yigal Dilmoni, the deputy head of the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea and Samaria, says that he welcomes all news of construction growth, but that this is still not enough to provide adequate housing for the nearly15,000 new people who move into communities there annually.
The new building in these areas was authorized as part of the agreement Israel made with the PA to release “murderous terrorists” in exchange for settlement growth, Dilmoni said.
“We must be able to build in Judea and Samaria without freeing prisoners,” he adds.
For the past year, residents in Judea and Samaria have persistently complained about a freeze in construction, noting that, while there is growth in some communities, many others are frozen.
Peace Now executive head Yariv Oppenheimer says that the CBS data shows that “all complaining about a settlement freeze is an illusion and a spin. On the ground, things are being built all the time.”
Such building, he says, destroys the possibly of a two state resolution to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
“So this will be another year in which we are moving forward to a bi-national state,” Oppenheimer says.
@ Ted Belman:
Very good!
Still, my questions on comment #5 remain valid.
I cannot see a single vehicle, worker, crane, materials depot, electrical lines, streets, construction equipment, etc.
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:Jpost has this caption under the picture.
Construction in a Leshem, a new neighborhood of the Alei Zahav settlement. (photo credit:TOVAH LAZAROFF)
@ bernard ross:
That was a classic example of multidimensional spreading of bull S. I am sure that the gang is working hard to buy a patsy.
ya’alon is, on his own merits, one gigantic pile of yentz in every respect. I would I loved to hire him to work for me on the Military Avionics Programs I was in charge. Why, you ask?
For the pleasure of, soon after, firing his ass…
A gruesome loser, soldiers user, liar, conniver and precisely because of that, guess who selected that item to appear to be el minister de la de fence.
When we observed that such item was placed in charge of the military, we realized that NEVER would the combina do a thing about Iran. Between Dagan and ya’alon there are common grounds. Both are untrustworthy trash.
I much rather would rely on 12 Paraguayan Colonels than on this one and his grotesque staff.
why would someone who is for Jewish settlement in YS always obstruct that settlement, always obstruct bills which might advance that settlement, always neuter those in his coalition and party who are for that settlement and seek authority to incarcerate those for settlement without evidence. During his terms he has not advanced a single right wing platform. Fool Jews are unable to see the obvious and instead point to all the meaningless red herrings as excuses for non performance.
IMO the gag order is a cover up to hide that their only “evidence” is hebrew scrawls and an Duma arab witness fingering settlers. The evidence of the real criminal arabs who caused the crime is now disappeared due to the delay in investigating the Duma arabs which delay was caused by the Yaalon Rivlin lynch mob. the delay allowed the security cams to be wiped clean. Who beleives that those who cannot take reposnsiblity for their lynch mob behavior causing revenge burnings of Jews will now become human beings and conduct an honest investigation. My experience is that such political sociopathic opportunists would more likely engage in a cover up and frame once they see they might be in trouble. Especially if the frame up advances a covert MO relating to “understandings” with the GCC
He has some “general ideas”
Beware of this Yaalon… at every opportunity he has operated against the settlers… he immdediately formed alynch mob accuses the settlers of the crime WITHOUT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE. All his vacillating now, and his attempts to predend that his false claims are true, his attempts to elude responsibility for the revnge burnigs of Jews in Israel and the beatings of Jews in Europe… his lack of humility, hi slack of shame, his lack of remorse, …. these show to me that he is a dangerous man who might stoop to any means to frame a jew to cover up his own negligence and incompetence. I suspect he is stretching out the time, stalling, in order to line up his ducks in a row that will plant the evidence to frame a Jew.
Also dangerous is the role of BB, where he floats in the background, evading responsibility for incarcerating Jews without =evidence, where he has his lightning rod Yaalon implement his programs of obstructing settlement and incarcerating Jews. BB always appoints others to be his fig leaf and cover and then recedes to the background for them to take the flak for his covert policies.
Beware of what has transpired with them all forming a quick lynch mob with the only result being the incarceration of Jews without evidence AND without relevance to the Duma arsons. I am sorry but I cannot beleive the BS story that Jews went deep into the middle of an arab village to commit the arson when they could have easily gone to the edge of the village. These narratives all arise from Duma arabs in the center of the village, who later refused to hand over security cam tapes until they were wiped clean. the problem is that political opportunists have already commited to the false narrative and such folk never addmit error or take responisbility…. therefore we should expect them instead to double down on their false narrative and plant false evidence… they will also likely “find” a Jewish witness near a settlement who will corroborate their BS.
Just like the movie “Breaker Morant” the sacrificing of the settlers enables the GOI to advance opposition to settlements in YS which will advance the “understandings” with the GCC. These frauds have bigger fish to fry, and frying some settlers on the way is nothing to those who have obstructed settlement in YS and allowed abuse of Jews by muslims in eretz yisroel for years.
Is that an actual, present Y & S construction site?
We know quite a bit about land preparation and structures construction.
A. There is not a soul working at the site. No cars…
B. No evidence of land development, streets…
C. No electrical towers or large generators. etc.
D. No materials stocked.
E. No cranes.
f. No even basic construction equipment.
G. No security detail.
We need some on site report…
If it were up to me, such folk would be incarcerated under the new administration detention law for spreading lies and propaganda about the Jewish state in a time of war which incites the murder of Jewish children globally. the same lies spread by oppenheimer were used by the murderer of the Jewish children in france as his reason for murdering the children. Many leftist liars and inciters of murder should be brought to jail and justice… not the lynch mob libeled jewish settlers of YS who are heros in the saga of the Jews return to eretz Yisroel.
what a revolutionary concept: building homes for jews in Judea Samaria.
why didnt anyone think of this before?????
Why didnt the euros who are building illegal homes for muslim arabs think of this before??????
why didnt the GOI whou have been facilitating the illegal building of homes for muslims in YS consider instead to build homes for Jews?????????
I am sure they can come up with many good reasons for the decades of the GOI obstructing the building of homes for Jews in YS?????????
Why didnt BB mention to the euros building ilegal muslim homes in YS, while at the same time calling Jewish homes in YS illegal,……. why did he NOT EVEN MENTION to them that they signed agreements and treaties to “encourage and facilitate the settlement of Jews in the mandate territory??????
Why did BB NOT EVEN MENTION to obama who called jewish settlement in YS illegitimate that his nation guaranteed otherwise in writing????????
Is BB a mute???????????????
translated 1: if I built 2 homes last year and 3 homes this year I would have achived the same rate.
translated 2: good thing I only built 2 last year because I make my self look good this year. Good thing a real nationalist jew wasnt PM last year.
AAAHHH…. only the actual numbers completed nave any meaning in a world of lying politicians playing peanut shell games.
LOL, still speaking growth rates which are without a shred of relevance to his performance. E.g.
If I built 7,900,000 more units last year in Israel and nly 6,900,000 more units this year then I would have obtained the same “dismal” growth rate which is way below the over 50% increase in YS this year.
When politicians and their apologists have to resort to this transparent rubbish to cover up their dishonesty one must wonder if “Bullshit baffles brains in Israel”
here is the answer:
😛 😛 😛 😛 …….. 😛
It only took me a couple of years from a distance of thousands of miles away to have come to this conclusion. Those that in the BB orchestrated panic switched their vote from Benett to BB probably still dont get it.
Now
Then
Oppenheimer cannot distinguish between the democratic state of Israel and the apartheid state of South Africa, and is therefore insufficiently sane to differentiate between illusion and reality.
Just another Jew hater camouflaged with a Hebrew surname.