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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The western leaders could get some balls and tell them no.
Is it Antarctica?
Say, YES.
But Greece and the EU will need heavy patrols.
If they can pony up $24 between ‘em they can take Manhattan.
I understand but Saudi Arabia is A) the home of Mecca and so should - they’re not - but should welcome Muslims home and B) It is nearly empty. Of course he can stick them in Egypt but I think they’ve had enough of Muslim radicals in their country.
Turn loose a bunch of wild pigs too.
Call it the ‘Isle of Jihad’!
Will the rising ocean flood it a few years?
We ought to chip on and send our illegals.
Besides, Muzzies prefer to live in a Western nation rather than under Muslim rule.
They won’t want to do that. Not only does it sound like work, but their goal in life is to destroy previously successful countries.
They can’t stand the comparison. It’s the real reason they hate the Jews - for all their contributions to the rest of the world.
I like that idea-but that billionaire isn’t being entirely kind-he has his own quite sensible motives, I’m sure-such as profiting from building/owning residential buildings, businesses, power company, etc. It sounds like those towns big companies used to build and own all the businesses in remote areas-not only were the workers employed at the businesses, but they also bought groceries and all that at the so called “company stores”...
No, but they are about 2500 miles from any other civilization.
They don’t wait their country... they want your country.
If the welfare benefits are not more than the EU, no one will show up.
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