Who’s Buying Nebraska? After shopping spree, Mormon church is top land purchaser

What are the Mormons up to? Or is Nebraska such a backwater that a few land purchases by the Mormons make a splash?

"... Farmland Reserve Inc., a nonprofit owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon church, has been quietly buying up ranch land in Nebraska’s Sandhills for the past three decades.

The Garden County shopping spree, coupled with more buys in four neighboring counties, made the church Nebraska’s top single buyer of land in the past five years. 

The church bought a whopping 57,500 acres – double the amount of the second largest buyer– between 2018 and 2022, according to a Flatwater Free Press analysis of data gathered by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications data journalism class. ..."

Who’s Buying Nebraska? After shopping spree, Mormon church is top land purchaser - Flatwater Free Press In the past five years, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought twice as much Nebraska land as the second biggest buyer. If they keep it up, they’ll soon own more than anyone.

Credits: Salt Lake Tribune Mormon Land

A Bold Peace Plan For The 71 Year Old Israeli-Arab Conflict

Posted: 5/17/2019

Why not try land purchase? Prosperous Israel could propose to buy either Gaza or the West Bank by offering each inhabitant x amount of money as startup capital. Israel would commit itself also do its best to develop the economy and improve living standards etc. in the shortest time possible.

The inhabitants agree to live peacefully together with Israelis and respect Israel. Inhabitants will be offered:

1. Conditional naturalization as Israeli citizens if an inhabitant so chooses
2. Land ownership in the future if they comply with the terms of the land purchase
3. Some form of autonomy to regulate their own affairs in accordance with Israeli laws and international law.

Such a land purchase may sound too realistic, but it would send a strong signal to the Arab people (especially and hopefully to the younger Arabs) that there are opportunities to be seized for a better life without constant armed conflict and being ruled by thugs and dictators etc. If any lessons from history may serve here: The U.S. have demonstrated that land purchases can be a very viable way too expand and to avoid further conflicts and too improve the living conditions of the people.

I am sure, I forgot something …