The short answer:-
Evacuating all construction beyond the Green Line except Jerusalem neighborhoods would [should be could - YM] cost NIS 224 billion
So writes in Globes reporter Moshe Lichtman.
Details:
"Globes" examined the cost of four different pullout scenarios.
Under the Clinton Plan, Israel would evacuate all construction beyond the Green Line, except for neighborhoods in Jerusalem...129 settlements with 320,000 residents in 56,000 apartments and homes would be evacuated. The cost of alternative housing is NIS 40 billion and the cost of evacuation on the Gush Katif model is NIS 224 billion.
Under the Israeli Plan, Israel would pull out of 92% of the West Bank, exchange land for the annexation of settlement blocs and would not evacuate neighborhoods in Jerusalem...Israel would keep Ariel, Maaleh Adumim, the Etzion Bloc, and some other settlements. 72 settlements with 63,000 residents 10,500 apartments and homes would be evacuated. The cost of alternative housing is NIS 8 billion and the cost of evacuation is NIS 42 billion.
Under the Palestinian Plan, Israel would pull out of 98% of the West Bank, including settlement blocs, but would not evacuate neighborhoods in Jerusalem. This scenario assumes that Israel would exchange land for the 2% of the West Bank that it would keep. Israel would evacuate Ariel, Maaleh Adumim, Beit Horon, Psagot, Efrat, Emmanuel, and Kedumim. 105 settlements with 176,000 residents 33,000 apartments and homes would be evacuated. The cost of alternative housing is NIS 24 billion and the cost of evacuation is NIS 132 billion.
Under the 1967 border scenario, Israel would pull out of the entire West Bank. This is a highly unlikely scenario, which has never been on the table in peace talks. It would involve the evacuation of 500,000 people in 108,000 apartments and homes. 72 settlements with 63,000 residents 10,500 apartments and homes would be evacuated. The cost of alternative housing is NIS 75 billion and the cost of evacuation is NIS 432 billion.
The scenarios are based on the evacuation of Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip in 2005 by the Sharon government...
I think that's a lot of money (today's dollar exchnage rate is, I think, around 3.60 NIS = 1 US Dollar).
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No need. The international community would not accept racist Pal statelets. ;o)
Israel has still not found a solution to the Gush Katif expellees.
How is it going to find a solution for 300,000 people? The cost of uprooting them is economically prohibitive and Israel's army and police don't have the manpower to get the job done.
They're good at throwing a few Jewish families out on the street. Doing that to hundreds of thousands would literally tear the country apart.
The forbidding cost is why no one in Israeli politics ever brings it up.
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