 Share
|
« Previous Daily-dish | Next Daily-dish » |
Email
Print
|
Subsidizing National Suicide
ByGershom Gorenberg dispatches the Israeli settlement "natural growth" canard:
Settlement homes aren't quite the giveaways they were a few years ago. But they are still cheap, subsidized housing that continues to draw Israelis to move to the West Bank. In 2007, the last year for which there are official figures, the settlement population (not including annexed East Jerusalem) grew by 14,500 people. Of that growth, 37 percent was due to veteran Israelis or new immigrants moving to occupied territory. The "natural growth" argument is intended to cover up the continued, state-backed effort to encourage this migration.
Hilzoy has more.
