By TEd Belman
The left is in a tizzy because Israel just issued recently-announced decision to construct 550 housing units in Jerusalem Wednesday.
The newly-issued building permits include 386 units in Har Homa, 136 units in Neve Yaakov and 36 units in Pisgat Zeev, according to AFP.
INN informs us:
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According to figures from Peace Now, in the six months since the talks began on July 29, the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu advancedplans for 7,302 new homes, including 4,880 in the West Bank and 2,422 in east Jerusalem.
In the same period, tenders were issued for 4,460 new homes – 2,372 in Judea and Samaria and 2,088 in Jerusalem.
Despite the apparent outrage over construction in Judea and Samaria, it is worth noting that a construction freeze was not a precondition to the current US-brokered talks.
@ bernard ross:
I’m curious what the difference is between “housing starts” (also referred to as “housing permits”) and “housing tenders.” Can someone answer that question for me?
Also, of the huge number of housing starts announced last November, (I believe, when the Palestinians declared independence at the UN), how many have been built or had construction begin? Or were those announcements just window dressing? Was all of that just ballyhoo and empty promises?
do any of these announced houses actually get built?