New Construction in Shiloh...With Occupancy

In Shiloh, Illinois, that is.

With occupancy, yes occupancy, in early 2019.

300 unit-plus luxury apartment complex proposed for ShilohBy Mark Schlinkmann St. Louis Post-Dispatch 

SHILOH • A $35 million luxury apartment complex with more than 300 units has been proposed for a 26-acre site along Cross Street and the planned extension of Frank Scott Parkway.  If Shiloh village officials approve a needed rezoning, the developer — Crevo Capital of Edwardsville — hopes to begin construction this fall.  The first units could be ready for occupancy in early 2019.

The apartments, which would be situated near a current lake on the vacant tract, may be built in phases, depending on market demand.  Corey Wenzel, Crevo Capital’s president, said in a release that the complex could be attractive to people who now commute to the area from Missouri.  “Some who work in the Metro East are commuting from St. Louis because they haven’t been able to find the type of environment here that we’ll soon be able to offer,” he said.

Developers also hope to attract tenants associated with nearby Memorial Hospital East and the U.S. Transportation Command at Scott Air Force Base. The development would include a health club and an indoor-outdoor community lounge with event space that would extend over the lake from the shoreline. The complex would offer units of one, two or three bedrooms, with some larger than 1,500 square feet.

And I once suggested a twinning of our towns and villages here in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) with towns, villages and cities named after the Biblical locations. 

By the way, the Shiloh Township 2017 Consolidated General Election Results from yesterday.

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Guttmann Not That Good

Channel One TV's Nathan Guttman, long-time US-resident but Israeli media correspondent, is in Moment Magazine writing on

Is the American Right too Right for Israel?

I had blogged on the positive aspects of the alteration in the political semantics and he continues, although I disagree:

This election cycle has officially ended the decades-long debate over whether Israel should be an American campaign issue. For better or worse, it is...It’s always great to be the center of attention. But in truth, Israel has nothing to gain from this debate. Republican claims and Democratic counter-claims both put Israel and its leaders in awkward positions.

...GOP candidates fighting for the title of most pro-Israel candidate are becoming more pro-Israel than, well, Israel itself...Recently Newt Gingrich has been upping the ante...Rick Santorum has also joined the chorus...Gingrich has stated that the Palestinians are an “invented” people. Santorum likens the West Bank to the states of Texas and New Mexico, suggesting that Israel is not required to return any part of it to the Palestinians, just as the United States did not.

Such statements are not only outside the mainstream of American opinion, they are also far beyond the views of Israel’s right-wing coalition government.

Whether or not they are, and that is a matter of which Ha-Ha-Haaretz is not convinced, a robust and honest agenda talk about Jewish national rights can do Israel no harm.

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A Pal. Geography Lesson

How to realign your geography.  Here:

Violent clashes erupted Tuesday evening between Palestinian residents and Israeli forces in several districts of Silwan town, southern Al-Qsaa mosque.

a) There are no "districts" there.

b) Silwan is not a "town" but a neighborhood.  In any case, they claim it's located in "East Jerusalem", not a separate entity.

c)  Al-Qsaa (?) [Al-Aqsa] is a mosque and located high above Silwan within the Temple Mount compound.  It is actually in the southern part of that compound.  Silwan is indeed south of that location but totally disconnected.

Oh, that "violence"?
 

Witnesses told WAFA News Agency that dozens of youths threw stones at Bait Yontan settlement, while the guards opened massive and indiscriminate gunfire causing a state of panic among women and children.

"He who throws stones....".

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An Early 1950s Map

The area where I live:-



Curtesy of the Palestine Arab Refugee Office.

Found here.

"CISJORDANIA"

Cisjordania is Spanish for the "West Bank" (see here, for example, an interview with Moetzet Yesha Chairman Dani Dayan) which is funny to me because as a Jabotinskyite, we were taught that the Palestine Mandate stretching from the Mediterranean Sea in the West to the Iraqi Desert in the east was divided by British imperialism seeking to assuage the violent Arabs who, in 1920 and 1921, were already killing Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Petah Tiqva in a politically-motivated terror campaing directed at civilians and members of the Old Yishuv community who were in no way identified with "nationalist Zionism" which the Arabs claimed was their enemy and not specifically Jews per se. Of course, they lied then and have been lying ever since.

And that division was termed TransJordan east of the Jordan River and...CisJordan as the territory west of the Jordan River.

But, I would presume, today's Spanish probably refers only to Judea and Samaria as Cisjordania whereas then, it included all the territory, including modern-day Israel.

That, ladies and gentlemen, was today's lesson in political geographic semantics.