Israel continues to fund settlements

Chris Kromm ckromm at mindspring.com
Mon May 20 04:42:27 PDT 2002


Middle East: The Sky's the Limit

Israel's economy is a shambles. But the perks to people willing to settle in the occupied territories keep coming. Is this any way to make peace?

By Dan Ephron NEWSWEEK

May 27 issue - Lisa Nhmani would have preferred to stay in Jerusalem but she couldn't afford to buy a house for her family of five. The four-bedroom homes she was seeing ran about $250,000, much more than the Nahmanis could manage. She began looking at neighborhoods beyond the Green Line-the border that divides Israel from the occupied West Bank-and at settlements deeper in Palestinian territory.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/753693.asp?cp1=1



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