Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumRising anti-Semitism prompts Diaspora Jews to buy properties in Israel
Increasing number of European, Australian Jews are looking for a home in Israel as they consider their options, realtors say.
With the Sukkot holiday starting this week, many Israelis will be slowing down and even taking a break from work. Not in the real estate business, though at least not among those brokers and agents who cater to foreign buyers.
Ever since the latest Gaza war ended this summer, property consultants and dealers report a sudden surge of interest among Jews abroad, primarily from Europe and Australia, in real estate investments in Israel.
The trend has less to do with speculation about where real estate prices in Israel are headed, industry professionals say, and more with a growing sense of insecurity and discomfort among Jews in these countries, following a spike in anti-Semitic incidents this summer. For many Diaspora Jews who traditionally vacation in Israel at this time of year, the upcoming Sukkot holiday is therefore likely to be exploited for property shopping.
The phone here hasnt stopped ringing since the end of the summer, says Rebecca Wolman, a property consultant at Home to Home, a boutique agency run by three British immigrants that specializes in English-speaking investors. Many of those we get calls from in England simply feel that they dont have a future there anymore.
Wolman estimates that the number of inquiries shes received from British buyers since the end of the war has increased by 200 percent compared with the same period last year. Most of these inquiries, she says, have been coming from Jews in London interested in purchasing a second home as they consider their options. The group includes individuals and families in all stages of life, she reports.
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.619782
King_David
(14,851 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Carlos Rodrigez
(69 posts)Israel's negotiating position on the West Bank / East Jerusalem gets stronger, and the ultimate settlement gets less favorable to the Palestinians. This is why the Arab side was stunned when Russia started letting Jews emigrate to Israel.
There is a reason no country, much to Israel's dismay, will move its embassy to West Jerusalem. It is not that anyone imagines West Jerusalem not to be part of Israel or to be returned in a final settlement. But moving the embassy strengthens Israel's negotiating position for East Jerusalem, as does Jews moving into West Jerusalem.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Response to Scootaloo (Reply #4)
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Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)I also understand states tend to support and seek to further things that work in their interest.
Maybe this is an explanation on why so many Zionists are jew-hating fucks.
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King_David
(14,851 posts)Thats the exact reason you have so many time outs and nobody takes your posts seriously.
Read what you wrote and think about it.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)This is called a crime against humanity.
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intaglio
(8,170 posts)Which goes against all the UN brokered treaties.
So what is it I do not understand? Is it that breaking international law by unilaterally breaking treaties and breaking international law by forcing migration on the Palestinians who want to be separate from their oppressors? BTW Israel is already forcing Bedouin on the West Bank out of their established communities.
Essentially you are asking for a repeat of the colonialist errors of the past.
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intaglio
(8,170 posts)Using the same argument the State of Israel should have been a demilitarised state relying on the goodwill of its sponsors for defense. Please note I am not suggesting Israel should be demilitarised, just making the comparison you seem unwilling to make.
Similarly do you really believe that Israel will move the settlers and abandon the 80% of the West Bank it currently occupies?
The Civil Administration is continuing to dispossess Bedouin in Area C as we speak
The Civil Administration has filed for objections plans for establishing a new settlement in the Jordan Valley, where thousands of Bedouins will be forced to relocate. The Civil Administration is advancing several such plans.
The current plan was drawn up without consulting the residents themselves, ignoring their needs. It is part of the Civil Administrations repeated attempts to concentrate the Bedouins living in the West Banks Area C in permanent sites, with a view to annexing most of this area to Israel and leaving it free for Israeli use, including settlement expansion.
The new settlement, to be named Ramat Nueimeh, will be built in Area C near Jericho, in the Jordan Valley, and is slated to house about 12,500 people from Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley and the Ma'ale Adumim area.
King_David
(14,851 posts)So firstly you tell us Haaretz is a pro government newspaper and now Bedouins are being evicted from the West Bank.
Seriously , how can you possibly think of being a part of this discussion with such glaring basic inaccuracies?
intaglio
(8,170 posts)and the Civil Authority want to resettle them.
Check my post 16
King_David
(14,851 posts)shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)is called "Anglo Saxon Real Estate"
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)You want the finest, tea-supping, cricket-playing, toodle-pip house on the market. One that smells faintly of tweed. A castle fit for a man of your breeding.
What you want is....ANGLO-SAXON REAL ESTATE!
King_David
(14,851 posts)Here is their motto : 'Anglo-Saxon Have A Foothold In Israel'
http://www.anglo-saxon.com/en/
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)You can't make that shit up, honestly.
All I can say is Dave, for God's sake, be a proud Anglo-Saxon man and move to Israel before its too late. Anglo Saxon Real Estate have preserved a foothold for you but they can't hold on forever. If the Mizrahi manage to buy properties in the German colony then all is lost, the infidious brown hordes will be upon us.
King_David
(14,851 posts)Or in the Gay bars : Anglo-Sexy.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)GitRDun
(1,846 posts)I am buying up casino rights over there. That way, once they've killed enough Palestinians, I can cash in on the casinos they'll offer as reparations!
Why should Israel be any diffierent than the US?