Defying Israel's illegal Israeli settlements after war in Palestine per International Law, Tweety trump barges in.
"A Palestinian-American billionaire built a $1.4 billion luxury city from scratch to be a 'Marshall Plan' for Palestine's economy"
Harrison Jacobs Oct 20, 2018
https://www.businessinsider.com/west-bank-palestine-rawabi-city-israel-news-2018-10
" - Rawabi is the first planned city in the West Bank built by and for Palestinians.
- The $1.4 billion project is the brainchild of Bashar al-Masri, a Palestinian-American billionaire. Masri hopes the city can form the economic backbone of the nascent Palestinian state.
- I found the city to be beautifully constructed with the facilities one might expect of a luxury real estate development. And though around 4,000 people are already living in the city, it feels very much like a place waiting to come alive. "
This is a vision of potential peace between Palestine and Israel.
" . . . I was in the West Bank, the occupied territory home to 2.6 million Palestinians, 400,000 Jewish settlers, and scores of Israeli soldiers.More specifically, I was in Rawabi, a $1.4 billion planned city constructed to serve as a model city for the new Palestinian state. At least, that's according to Masri, who came up with the plan over a decade ago.
"I'm a believer that we have a state in the making," Masri told Business Insider. "The question in my mind is not when we will have the state, but rather what shape the statehood will be in."
This is a good thing for potential peace.
"The new Palestinian city that lacks only one thing"
A Palestinian millionaire has built a totally new city from scratch in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, complete with a Roman amphitheatre and football stadium. But one thing is stopping people moving in - there's no water.
By Lyse Doucet and Jane McMullen BBC News, Rawabi 7 Feb 2015
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31154138
""I am defying the occupation," insists the well-dressed and well-spoken Masri, who comes from an extended Palestinian family known for its financial success and political savvy. "
Can water be obtained?
""We're not promising people here heaven, we're not promising anything less than we are still under occupation," insists Masri.
In a nod to his Palestinian critics, he adds: "This is not normalising and accepting the occupation and looking the other way.""
Can the city get electricity?
"Rawabi is being built in areas governed by the Palestinian Authority within the Israeli-occupied West Bank, but access to a permanent road and a fixed pipeline goes through an area which an interim peace accord placed under Israeli jurisdiction.
About 60% of the West Bank, including settlements and their access roads, as well as military bases, is under direct Israeli administration.
"What did you want me to do, stop living?" Masri demands rhetorically, in response to his critics. "The water most Palestinians drink is from Israel, so is our electricity.""
There are cultural and religious differences from the Israeli settlements near by.
"Masri is funding the $1bn project from his own considerable fortune, as well as with hundreds of millions from the real estate arm of the Qatar Investment Authority. The wealthy Gulf state has become a powerful player across the Middle East. Masri concedes that their backing is politically as well as commercially motivated, and, admits they requested a very big mosque."
"A Palestinian-American billionaire says the biggest challenge facing his $1.4 billion luxury city in the heart of Palestine nearly bankrupted the project — and it's still not over"
Harrison Jacobs Oct 26, 2018, 1:03 PM
https://www.businessinsider.com/rawabi-palestine-bashar-masri-biggest-challenge-water-2018-10
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High-profile domestic and international figures and US Jewish groups lobbied Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to approve the water supply. In March 2015, Netanyahu gave in and Rawabi was approved for a temporary water supply of 300 cubic meters per day. That's enough for Rawabi's first 5,000 residents.
But Rawabi's difficulties are likely far from over. With 4,000 people already living in the city, it won't be long before Masri and his cohort have to renegotiate. "
Ironically it seems America has become as hateful and tribal as extreme Palestinians fighting extreme Israelis.
