Solving Israel's housing problem
 | By Joe Millis
July 18, 2011 | Share |
Israel has a massive social housing problem and like in the UK many young couples cannot get a foot on the housing ladder, either by purchasing or by renting. It has come to a head with tent cities sprouting up in Tel Aviv and elsewhere.
So here's an idea. It's even an proper Zionist one, that negates the need for the zealots and their followers. Develop the Negev.
Instead of wasting squillions on the settlements in the occupied territories, develop a 10-year plan to build a new airport in the Negev with high-speed road and rail links north and south. After all, the area around Ben-Gurion airport is very crowded and even the Israeli Airports Authority think it's an accident waiting to happen.
Then build social housing for affordable rent. Use the vast space of the Negev for investment in industry and housing.
That was David Ben-Gurion's dream. If Israel doesn't defeat the desert, the desert will defeat it, as he said. Israel also has to defeat the zealots and those who adopt the Soviet style of fascism is it wants to defeat the Negev.
COMMENTS
18 July, 2011 - 15:37 Rate this: -3 points | There we go again - comparing Israel with the Soviet Union - the land which murdered 50 million of its own people. Historical and moral relativism, courtesy of millis and the JC. millis, if comparing Israel with the USSR is acceptable, why isn't comparing Israel with the Nazis? |
18 July, 2011 - 15:39 Rate this: -3 points | millis, I'll ask you again? Who is Israel supposed to give Judea and Samaria to? The Hamas/ Fatah pact government? |
18 July, 2011 - 15:58 Rate this: -3 points | Some saddo is giving minus points without having the gumption to say anything...get a life |
19 July, 2011 - 12:59 Rate this: 1 point | Israel's economy developed a decent standard of living when it became more pro-capitalist, and less the ideas of Ben Gurion. Since when did any government planned economy become prosperous? We're suffering in the US economically under Obama, and his is the most governmently managed economy I can ever remember. |
21 July, 2011 - 14:55 Rate this: 0 points | Economist Milton Friedman once famously said that if government ran the Sahara Desert, after 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. |
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Solving the JC's millis problem.
What a buffoon.