Posted on 09/10/2015 2:27:44 PM PDT by Rusty0604
An Egyptian billionaire has offered to buy an island from Greece or Italy and develop it to help hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from Syria and other conflicts.
Announcing the initiative on Twitter, telecoms tycoon Naguib Sawiris said: 'Greece or Italy sell me an island, I'll call its independence and host the migrants and provide jobs for them building their new country'.
More than 2,300 people have died at sea trying to reach Europe since January, many of them Syrians who fled their country's four-and-a-half year conflict.
His comments also come just days after heartbreaking images emerged of three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi whose lifeless body was found washed up on a Turkish beach after drowning in the Mediterranean.
Sawiris said in a television interview that he would approach the governments of Greece and Italy about his plan.
Asked whether he believed it could work, he said: 'Of course it's feasible.'
'You have dozens of islands which are deserted and could accommodate hundreds of thousands of refugees.'
Sawiris said an island off Greece or Italy could cost between $10million and $100million, but added the 'main thing is investment in infrastructure'.
There would be 'temporary shelters to house the people, then you start employing the people to build housing, schools, universities, hospitals.
'And if things improve, whoever wants to go back (to their homeland) goes back,' said Sawiris, whose family developed the popular El Gouna resort on Egypt's Red Sea coast.
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"Egyptian billionaire offers to buy an ISLAND from Greece or Italy and provide jobs so fleeing migrants can 'build a new country'"
He should be taken up on that offer, and then the west could redirect all those "refugees" to his island. But no, then it wouldn't be a crisis and the gov't wouldn't be able to force their taxpayers to pay for their own destruction by Muslims.
How about using that money to build a city in near empty Saudi Arabia for the Muslims?
Why would they want to do that when all these western countries will give them places to live, food and God knows what else and not expect them to do a thing for it.
They have an easy ride and lots of time to plan beheadings on the public dole.
He knows .... the unwashed will refuse it
And they can call it Palestine...
Buffet , Gates and Soros need to help fund this island
Great idea. Buy a big island and put all ROP’ers on it. Keep them on it.
Why build a new country for themselves when it’s so much more fun taking over and destroying someone else’s country?
That’s great but I bet it wouldn’t be long before they were fleeing the island ... from each other.
It’s the billionaire’s money - not some governments money - and he’s Egyptian, not Saudi.
The point is to take over Europe, that’s what they want.
They can call it “Crapistan.”
Wonder if he’ll take Meh-i-cans?
That’s why I said the western leaders should direct all so called refugees to the island and close their borders. But they wouldn’t want that.
An island would be easier to bomb.
LOL
They will not come...no welfare to wage Jihad on Europe...
If France will sell them the Kerguelen Islands might be a good place to settle the muslims. There is a whole archipelago there!
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