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Gilo to get 130 new housing units
Omri Efraim
Published: 28.12.11, 15:57
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1. The international community ...
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (12.28.11)
... particularly in Europe, seems to seriously overestimate its influence. No one cares what the Europeans think. No one cares what they do or do not condemn. They are remarkably vociferous over anything that Israel does, and strangely silent about what has been going on in Syria, Egypt, Tunisia -- or anywhere else, for that matter. That is why any opinions out of Europe that are negative to Israel are so easily discounted.
2. Europinions have little currency
M. Jerome ,   Boise, USA   (12.29.11)
As #1 suggests, the unthinking reflexiveness of European ciriticism of this sort is made evident by their relative silence in the face of the egregious vioations of human rights that are regularly committed by Arab governments on their own peoples. Those in Arab countries who finally threw off their oppressors do not have the Europeans to thank for any active criticism of their undemocratic leaders over the years. You can take this unending hypocrisy as a compliment to the Israelis in the sense that the Europeans have higher expectations of civility and conduct by the Israelis. It is only because the Israelis are too much like the Europeans that they (the Europeans) cannot abide the betrayal (by the Israelis) of common liberal ideals, which they (the Europeans) have no trouble observing in the relative safety of their homes. While the continued efforts to settle over the Green line do not serve the interests of peace, the disproportionately loud criticism (in the face of much more fundamental obstacles) trivializes the European criticism.
3. May every new home have a dozen new Jewish babies, and soon.
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (12.29.11)
4. Too little
Brod ,   USA   (12.29.11)
They should be building thousands of homes and NOT just 130.
5. What is the definition of a "housing unit"?
Henry from New York ,   USA   (12.29.11)
Is it a combination of apartments and houses or is it something very specific or what? I do wish the Israeli press would use less obscure terms (my favourite one is the measurement of the dunam).
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