investment in yehuda and shomron in today s israeline posting at the end an afterthought i read more money allocated to building infrastructure in territories to create jobs for palestinians kol yisrael reports that public works geared at building infrastructure costing million new israeli shekels about million dollars will begin sunday in the territories this was announced last night by prime minister yitzhak rabin and finance minister avraham shohat in an effort to create more jobs for palestinian residents of the territories this infusion of money will bring allocations given to developing infrastructure in the territories this year to million nis up from last year s figure of million nis while i applaud investing of money in yehuda shomron v chevel azza in order to create jobs for their residents i find it deplorable that this has never been an active policy of any israeli administration since with regard to their jewish residents past governments found funds to subsidize cheap read affordable housing and the requisite infrastructure but where was the investment for creating industry which would have generated income and jobs after years yehuda and shomron remain barren bereft of even middle sized industries and the jewish settlements are sterile bedroom communities havens for in the main israelis both secular and religious who work in tel aviv or jerusalem but cannot afford to live in either city or their surrounding suburbs there s an old saying bli giboosh ayn kivoosh just living there wasn t enough we had to really settle it but instead we settled for potemkin villages and now we are paying the price and doing for others what we should have done for ourselves yonatan b horen jews who do not base their advocacy of jewish positions and interests on judaism are essentially racists the only horen netcom com morally defensible grounds for the preservation of jews as a separate people rest on their religious identity as jews
