09-06-2012, 08:22 AM
Horrors i know. Hate myself for thinking this way sometimes. But try to look at it purely from the cold real estate angle;
Is the West Bank or Gaza a place where you would want to live? Even without the police state of Israel surrounding? Despite the usually nice weather I don't think so.
Please excuse the following inexact math and real estate value inaccuracies. Also i didn't provide links or references but believe me they exist. Close counts...
I once checked the population data on Gaza from 1948. It was about 40,000 people. Roughly the same amount of people as Beverly Hills and the surrounding area that lives there today. Next I calculated the median cost of a home there in 90210: $1,323,721.
Divide population by family of four = 10,000 homes roughly. Multiply by median home values of 1,323,721.00 =
13,237,210,000.00
Or a little over 13 Billion with a "B" dollars. that is needed to buy up all Beverly Hills residential property.
OK now what is the projected U.S. military and other aid to Israel for 2012? A little over 3 billion on one page i read. less somewhere else. More somewhere else. One had it listed as high as 6 Billion. Lets use that one. A whole ton of money either way. Close counts.
How about aid to Palestine and Gaza? Less. Far less. Only stats I found indicated about 600 million. Still not exactly chump change.
4 billion + .6 billion = 4.6 BILLION per year for all of Israel and the Occupied territories. So lets now divide the total real estate value of Beverly Hills by our foreign aid package to Palestine and Israel:
13 billion/4.6 = 2.826. Meaning that with less than 3 years of financial aid to Israel and Palestine we could send the original 40,000 Palestinian people of Gaza 1948 to live in their own home in Beverly Hills. Not sure how to break the news to Jed Clampett. There goes the neighborhood.
But you get the point: The West Bank and especially Gaza aren't particularly nice places to live. If I lived there the only thing I would be thinking of is to get OUT.
I was born in Oregon. Believe me it is a much nicer place to live than Gaza. However even Oregon isn't worth going to war for. If for some odd reason I was never allowed to go back there I wouldn't choose to blow myself up because I was pissed nor to make political points. In fact the whole Israeli/Palestinian conflict is based upon a huge, grossly irrational perspective. Neither side enjoys a land worth living in. Let alone defending. Ain't worth it. Not at the cost of war. For what?
So maybe we should just give the Palestinians San Diego County. That's right: Just give it to them. Or a comparable. I'll ask my realtor tomorrow.
Is the West Bank or Gaza a place where you would want to live? Even without the police state of Israel surrounding? Despite the usually nice weather I don't think so.
Please excuse the following inexact math and real estate value inaccuracies. Also i didn't provide links or references but believe me they exist. Close counts...
I once checked the population data on Gaza from 1948. It was about 40,000 people. Roughly the same amount of people as Beverly Hills and the surrounding area that lives there today. Next I calculated the median cost of a home there in 90210: $1,323,721.
Divide population by family of four = 10,000 homes roughly. Multiply by median home values of 1,323,721.00 =
13,237,210,000.00
Or a little over 13 Billion with a "B" dollars. that is needed to buy up all Beverly Hills residential property.
OK now what is the projected U.S. military and other aid to Israel for 2012? A little over 3 billion on one page i read. less somewhere else. More somewhere else. One had it listed as high as 6 Billion. Lets use that one. A whole ton of money either way. Close counts.
How about aid to Palestine and Gaza? Less. Far less. Only stats I found indicated about 600 million. Still not exactly chump change.
4 billion + .6 billion = 4.6 BILLION per year for all of Israel and the Occupied territories. So lets now divide the total real estate value of Beverly Hills by our foreign aid package to Palestine and Israel:
13 billion/4.6 = 2.826. Meaning that with less than 3 years of financial aid to Israel and Palestine we could send the original 40,000 Palestinian people of Gaza 1948 to live in their own home in Beverly Hills. Not sure how to break the news to Jed Clampett. There goes the neighborhood.
But you get the point: The West Bank and especially Gaza aren't particularly nice places to live. If I lived there the only thing I would be thinking of is to get OUT.
I was born in Oregon. Believe me it is a much nicer place to live than Gaza. However even Oregon isn't worth going to war for. If for some odd reason I was never allowed to go back there I wouldn't choose to blow myself up because I was pissed nor to make political points. In fact the whole Israeli/Palestinian conflict is based upon a huge, grossly irrational perspective. Neither side enjoys a land worth living in. Let alone defending. Ain't worth it. Not at the cost of war. For what?
So maybe we should just give the Palestinians San Diego County. That's right: Just give it to them. Or a comparable. I'll ask my realtor tomorrow.