December 30, 2010, - 3:42 pm
Why is Israel Giving Jerusalem Jewish Neighborhood to Palestinian Muslims, Terror Bank?
As I’ve always noted, like America, a major reason Israel is losing to Muslims is not due to its Islamic enemies on the outside, but its Israeli, Jewish enemies on the inside. They do more to hurt Israel than HAMAS or Fatah ever could. (With America, it’s Americans–stupid ones and liberals (groups which often intersect, but not always)–which are destroying us from within in a way Al-Qaeda could never do.) The Israelis are willingly giving up and giving away important land and neighborhoods to Islamic terrorists.
“Nof Zion (View of Zion): This is Your View; a Private Neighborhood in Jerusalem”
Check out this latest story, in which a Palestinian with U.S. citizenship–whose family owns the HAMAS/Fatah/homicide-bomber-enabling Arab Bank–might take over a Jewish neighborhood development in Jerusalem. In contrast to the phony story of Palestinian destitution we’re always fed, he is a developer of luxury homes for Palestinian Muslims. It’s bad news. And it’s how Israel is losing–not via homicide bombs, but by giving up in the free market.
(Keep in mind, as I’ve noted before that this “Arab neighborhood” of “East Jerusalem” has historically ALWAYS been Jewish–until the UN and the rest of the world forced Jewish homeowners in “East” Jerusalem to “rent” (for free) their homes to Arab Muslims.)
A leading Palestinian businessman is bidding to take over an ill-fated real-estate venture in an Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem, upsetting Israeli settlers who are trying to put together a counteroffer.
Nof Tzion, Hebrew for Zion View, is a half-built project located in a mostly Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem, marketed two years ago to wealthy U.S. Jews as a luxury residence with a panoramic vista of Jerusalem’s Old City. Though the 91 units of the first phase of the development have been sold and occupied, Israeli developer Digal Investment & Holdings Ltd. couldn’t complete the project or repay its bondholders, mostly Israeli institutions. Representatives of Digal weren’t available to comment.
Jewish residents of the project are now livid at the idea that the project could be turned over to a Palestinian. The Palestinian businessman, Bashar Masri, said that if his bid is successful, he plans to offer houses in subsequent phases to Palestinians. His bid was discussed at a meeting of bondholders in Tel Aviv on Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Masri, a U.S. citizen who grew up in the West Bank, is offering to repay 80% of bondholder debt totaling $17 million, according to a person close to the bidder. Digal also owes some $20 million to Bank Leumi Ltd. of Israel for project financing.
Mr. Masri, who leads an investment company building a separate, massive Palestinian development in the West Bank, is the scion of a Nablus family that controls Arab Bank PLC and the Palestinian phone monopoly, Palestine Telecommunications Co. . . .
Nof Tzion was the first Jewish development in East Jerusalem to be financed by a public offering on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
Bemunah Ltd., an Israeli builder that specializes in housing for Orthodox Jews, said it is preparing its own offer to compete with Mr. Masri’s. The company declared on its website that it is trying to stop the “hostile takeover” of East Jerusalem and called for the “rescue” of Nof Tzion.
“Of course the purpose is to keep the territory Jewish,” said Israel Zeira, chief executive of Bemunah.
Let’s hope. The thing is, in the Muslim world, they don’t take Jewish land by bidding on a distressed property. In contrast, they expel the Jews (after raping and murdering a good number of them), and seize their property at any time before, during or after the expulsion. That’s pretty much how it happened in Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Iran, and every other country in the Muslim and Arab world.
That’s why it’s so important to keep Jerusalem and the rest of Israel in Jewish hands. It’s not about bigotry. It’s about national security. And about the ultimate civil right: life.
Exit Question: Since the U.S. has, itself, charged that Arab Bank shields the accounts of Islamic terrorists and funds transferred to “martyrs,” why is Israel not barring anyone tied with Arab Bank from owning ANY property in Israel?
Because, as I’ve noted, Israel’s worst enemies are the Jewish Israelis from within. And the country doesn’t have the guts to take a stand against a person like Bashar Masri from owning land in the state. FYI, Masri means “Egyptian” in Arabic. And like a lot of so-called Palestinians, his family is probably of Egyptian heritage–not the faux-Palestinian background he and his family claim.
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Here’s a sampling of quotations that speak for themselves:
“The world is made a cruel place not by those who do evil, but by those who stand by and do nothing.”
“We have seen the enemy, and it is us.”
APPEASEMENT. DOESN’T. WORK. It didn’t work with Chamberlain/Hitler/Munich. When you give a barbarian an inch, he’ll take a yard, just like Hitler took the Rhineland, the Sudentenland, and finally Poland after signing the idiotic Munich Agreement with uber-moron Neville Chamberlain.
Harry S. Truman once said (and I agree): “The only thing that is new in the world is the history you do not know.” Because history repeats itself, when you don’t learn from its lessons. ENOUGH. WITH. THE. APPEASEMENT.
Recently, there was a rabbinical ban on selling homes to Arabs in Eretz Yisrael (within the biblical confines of the Land of Israel). Of course, everyone screamed and cried how this is “racist” and “bigoted,” and all the other charges that the arrogant, politically correct elite likes to level at everyone who disagrees. But is it really bigoted to refrain from empowering the enemies of the Jewish people? LEARN. FROM. HISTORY. Bowing down to barbarians doesn’t work. It never has, and it never will.
Who are the “poor and oppressed Palestinian refugees”? They are the direct result of the Arab invasion into Israel during and after 1948. They are people whom the Jordanian, Egyptian, and other governments refuse to take back because they wish to perpetuate the idiotic myth of Israeli “conquest” and “occupation.” Because they want to use this as a wedge against Israel, to continue delegitimizng its sovereignty.
As the great Golda Meir said, once the Arabs/Pals/Muslims lay down their arms, there will be peace in the Middle East. Once the Israelis lay down their arms, the tiny State of Israel – a country the size of New Jersey – will be destroyed.
Almost all Muslim countries (and a whole host of European ones) have expelled their Jewish populations, either before and after the establishment of the State of Israel. Israel, however, has NOT expelled its Muslim population, but instead chooses to treat terrorists and their extremist offspring in hospitals. Because we, as Jews, have to be better than our enemies. Israel IS morally superior because it does things like this (unlike the barbarian Muslim world.) Israel tolerates homosexuals; Iran hangs them, even if they’re children.
Incredible.
Mike on December 30, 2010 at 4:32 pm