Rebuilding homes in Gaza will cost the US $40bn
Because let’s be real here, Israel isn’t gonna let any Palestinians stay there and the US won’t dare not give them money thanks to evangelical death cultists.
It’s not just evangelicals. Don’t underestimate the massive conservative financial interests in Israel, hence the Israel Anti-Boycott Act.
Yes, but those financial interests only exist because of evangelicals.
Great business opportunity for American and Israeli companies. I wonder how long it will take to bring all those children back to life.
American’s have already been moving in, 15% of “Israeli Settlers” are Americans, that stat was from a 2015 article.
I have a definite option to get UK citizenship and we think my brother and I also qualify for German citizenship due to a technicality (we’re looking into it). I’m Jewish, so I could technically also get Israeli citizenship if I wanted it. I have no idea why I would want such a thing.
Free real estate?
Israel: “Oh that’s too bad, I guess the Gazans should all just move away. Temporarily. For humanitarian reasons. They can move back 16 years from now.” *wink*
Not sure why they’d publish this, Israel is 100% going to take the land that was bombed and leave them with an even smaller parcel than before. The homes that are rebuilt will be Israel’s homes.
Taking the land is obviously their goal, but can Israel accomplish this?
They have yet to secure north Gaza. Hamas is still killing invaders with Yasin RPG and they are still launching bathtub rockets into Israel.
The economic clock is ticking, Israel is taking significant economic damage by having such a huge fraction of their workforce be unavailable. It’s not just the conscripted soldiers, it’s the large civilian population that temporarily fled homes in both the south and north of Israel.
Also the international situation is a wildcard. Without western support, Israel’s only option will be retreat.
I wonder how this sum relates to the profits that the arms industry has made from all this destruction and human suffering.
Give away billions to blow it up, give away billions to rebuild it. We really are the clowncar superpower.
Less if they rebuild with sand mixed resources again. (Note: sarcasm)
How can one possibly give a 16 year timeframe? I mean, the level of parallelization has to be unknown. There’s no critical path that lasts 16 years.
“Even under optimistic scenarios for the pace of physical reconstruction, the scale of destruction in Gaza has been such that, simply from the narrow perspective of moving in building materials, it would still take until 2040 and probably longer to restore the housing units destroyed since the start of the war,” the researchers concluded.
Article explains the reasoning. They chose the metric of moving building materials into devastated areas
Ok but who will lend the money?, who will make the big business?
