some good news out of israel: Knesset Push to Build in Yesha

[Meerkat]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146334

Just hours after Israel's High Court ruled the government must destroy the community of Migron a group of 42 MKs petititioned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to solve Israel's 'housing crisis' by building in Judea and Samaria.

According to the petition, "to solve the housing shortage throughout the country, we, members of the Knesset, the undersigned, urge you to include, among other solutions taken by the government, housing for tens of thousands of citizens in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. "
 
"We are in days of protest over a housing shortage, and we, as a lobby, have something to say about it," MK Zeev Elkin said.
 
"Judea and Samaria has enormous potential to solve the housing problem. We turn here, named 42 ministers, deputy ministers and Knesset members who signed the appeal to the Prime Minister to act," Elkin added.
 
The petition was presented at a meeting of the Land of Israel Lobby and was also attended by Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman, the Minister of Science and Technology, Daniel Hershkowitz and Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin.
 
"Zionism is essentially a settler movement," Knesset Speaker Rueven Rivlin said. "Without the Golan or the Negev, who knows what would happen to Israel. Since we returned here as a people, settlement was a sign of our way of returning to our country."
 
"We must show faith with those who settle Israel," MK Daniel Herskovitz said. "I was in Migron today and they tell me the verdict  is that their community be destroyed by March. The Zionist movement does not uproot, it plants. It tore my heart, and I hope you find a way to avert the evil decree."
 
MK Yulia Shamalov-Berkovitz said, "Time to apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley."
 
Signatories included ministers Michael Eitan, Yuli Edelstein, Daniel Hershkowitz, Moshe Kahlon, Yossi Peled, and deputy ministers Danny Ayalon, Menachem Eliezer Moses, Leah Ness and Ayoub Kara, and numerous Knesset members from Kadima, Likud, Israel Our Home, Shas, National Union and the Jewish Home.
 

this might actually be backfiring in the left's face! beezrat hashem, these protest will result in the expansion of Yo"sh settlements.

[Secularbeliever]

Only a moron (or liberal) would complain about a housing shortage and put half the country off limits to building.

[cjd]

A week or so ago I suggested in another thread something like this could be a solution to a few of Israels problems.... It would ease the housing shortage and setup a larger Jewish presence in the settlements.