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Just from doing a very quick research it appears that white folks in the U.S. have hijacked more planes than anyone else in the U.S.. Maybe white folks should be banned from flying. You know, after Oklahoma City I've been thinking that we should arrest all white guys who buy fertilizer. Worse yet, white guys dressed as farmers who buy diesel fuel! And if he has a "real men love Jesus" sticker on the back of his truck let me tell you, that's some scary shit right there! Damn farmers ought to know better than to go around looking and acting like farmers! Arrest 'em all!

November 21, 2006 Israeli Map Says West Bank Posts Sit on Arab Land By STEVEN ERLANGER JERUSALEM, Nov. 20 — An Israeli advocacy group, using maps and figures leaked from inside the government, says that 39 percent of the land held by Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is privately owned by Palestinians. Israel has long asserted that it fully respects Palestinian private property in the West Bank and only takes land there legally or, for security reasons, temporarily. If big sections of those settlements are indeed privately held Palestinian land, that is bound to create embarrassment for Israel and further complicate the already distant prospect of a negotiated peace. The data indicate that 40 percent of the land that Israel plans to keep in any future deal with the Palestinians is private. The new claims regarding Palestinian property are said to come from the 2004 database of the Civil Administration, which controls the civilian aspects of Israel’s presence in the West Bank. Peace Now, an Israeli group that advocates Palestinian self-determination in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, plans to publish the information on Tuesday. An advance copy was made available to The New York Times. The data — maps that show the government’s registry of the land by category — was given to Peace Now by someone who obtained it from an official inside the Civil Administration. The Times spoke to the person who received it from the Civil Administration official and agreed not to identify him because of the delicate nature of the material. That person, who has frequent contact with the Civil Administration, said he and the official wanted to expose what they consider to be wide-scale violations of private Palestinian property rights by the government and settlers. The government has refused to give the material directly to Peace Now, which requested it under Israel’s freedom of information law. Shlomo Dror, a spokesman for the Civil Administration, said he could not comment on the data without studying it. He said there was a committee, called the blue line committee, that had been investigating these issues of land ownership for three years. “We haven’t finished checking everything,” he said. Mr. Dror also said that sometimes Palestinians would sell land to Israelis but be unwilling to admit to the sale publicly because they feared retribution as collaborators. Within prominent settlements that Israel has said it plans to keep in any final border agreement, the data show, for example, that some 86.4 percent of Maale Adumim, a large Jerusalem suburb, is private; and 35.1 percent of Ariel is. The maps indicate that beyond the private land, 5.8 percent is so-called survey land, meaning of unclear ownership, and 1.3 percent private Jewish land. The rest, about 54 percent, is considered “state land” or has no designation, though Palestinians say that at least some of it represents agricultural land expropriated by the state. The figures, together with detailed maps of the land distribution in every Israeli settlement in the West Bank, were put together by the Settlement Watch Project of Peace Now, led by Dror Etkes and Hagit Ofran, and has a record of careful and accurate reporting on settlement growth. The report does not include Jerusalem, which Israel has annexed and does not consider part of the West Bank, although much of the world regards East Jerusalem as occupied. Much of the world also considers Israeli settlements on occupied land to be illegal under international law. International law requires an occupying power to protect private property, and Israel has always asserted that it does not take land without legal justification. One case in a settlement Israel intends to keep is in Givat Zeev, barely five miles north of Jerusalem. At the southern edge is the Ayelet Hashachar synagogue. Rabah Abdellatif, a Palestinian who lives in the nearby village of Al Jib, says the land belongs to him. Papers he has filed with the Israeli military court, which runs the West Bank, seem to favor Mr. Abdellatif. In 1999, Israeli officials confirmed, he was even granted a judgment ordering the demolition of the synagogue because it had been built without permits. But for the last seven years, the Israeli system has done little to enforce its legal judgments. The synagogue stands, and Mr. Abdellatif has no access to his land. Ram Kovarsky, the town council secretary, said the synagogue was outside the boundaries of Givat Zeev, although there is no obvious separation. Israeli officials confirm that the land is privately owned, though they refuse to say by whom. Mr. Abdellatif, 65, said: “I feel stuck, angry. Why would they do that? I don’t know who to go to anymore.” He pointed to his corduroy trousers and said, in the English he learned in Paterson, N.J., where his son is a police detective: “These are my pants. And those are your pants. And you should not take my pants. This is mine, and that is yours! I never took anyone’s land.” According to the Peace Now figures, 44.3 percent of Givat Zeev is on private Palestinian land. Miri Eisin, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said that Israeli officials would have to see the data and the maps and added that ownership is complicated and delicate. Baruch Spiegel, a reserve general who just left the Ministry of Defense and dealt with the separation barrier being built near the boundary with the West Bank, also said he would have to see the data in detail in order to judge it. The definitions of private and state land are complicated, given different administrations of the West Bank going back to the Ottoman Empire, the British mandate, Jordan and now Israel. During the Ottoman Empire, only small areas of the West Bank were registered to specific owners, and often villagers would hold land in common to avoid taxes. The British began a more formal land registry based on land use, taxation or house ownership that continued through the Jordanian period. Large areas of agricultural land are registered as state land; other areas were requisitioned or seized by the Israeli military after 1967 for security purposes, but such requisitions are meant to be temporary and must be renewed, and do not change the legal ownership of the land, Mr. Dror, the Civil Administration spokesman, said. But the issue of property is one that Israeli officials are familiar with, even if the percentages here may come as a surprise and may be challenged after the publication of the report. Asked about Israeli seizure of private Palestinian land in an interview with The Times last summer, before these figures were available, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said: “Now I don’t deny anything, I don’t ignore anything. I’m just ready to sit down and talk. And resolve it. And resolve it in a generous manner for all sides.” He said the 1967 war was a one of self-defense. Later, he said: “Many things happened. Life is not frozen. Things occur. So many things happened, and as a result of this many innocent individuals on both sides suffered, were killed, lost their lives, became crippled for life, lost their family members, their loved ones, thousands of them. And also private property suffered. By the way, on all sides.” Mr. Olmert says Israel will keep some 10 percent of the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, possibly in a swap for land elsewhere. The area Israel intends to keep is roughly marked by the route of the unfinished separation barrier, which cuts through the West Bank and is intended, Israel says, to stop suicide bombers. Mr. Olmert, however, describes it as a putative border. Nearly 80,000 Jews live in settlements beyond the route of the barrier, but some 180,000 live in settlements within the barrier, while another 200,000 live in East Jerusalem. But these land-ownership figures show that even in the settlements that Israel intends to keep, there will be a considerable problem of restitution that goes beyond the issue of refugee return. Mr. Olmert was elected on a pledge to withdraw Israeli settlers living east of the barrier. But after the war with Hezbollah and with fighting ongoing in Gaza, from which Israel withdrew its settlers in the summer of 2005, his withdrawal plan has been suspended. In March 2005, a report requested by the government found a number of illegal Israeli outposts built on private Palestinian land, and officials promised to destroy them. But only nine houses of only one outpost, Amona, were dismantled after a court case brought by Peace Now. There is a court case pending over Migron, which began as a group of trailers on a windy hilltop around a set of cellphone antennas in May 1999 and is now a flourishing community of 50 families, said Avi Teksler, an official of the Migron council. But Migron, too, according to the data, is built on private Palestinian land. Mr. Teksler said that the land was deserted, and that its ownership would be settled in court. Migron, where some children of noted settlement leaders live, has had “the support of every Israeli government,” he said. “The government has been a partner to every single move we’ve made.” Mr. Teksler added: “This is how the state of Israel was created. And this is all the land of Israel. We’re like the kibbutzim. The only real difference is that we’re after 1967, not before.” But in the Palestinian village of Burqa, Youssef Moussa Abdel Raziq Nabboud, 85, says that some of the land of Migron, and the land on which Israel built a road for settlers, belongs to him and his family, who once grew wheat and beans there. He said he had tax documents from the pre-1967 authorities. “They have the power to put the settlement there and we can do nothing,” he said. “They have a fence around the settlement and dogs there.” Mr. Nabboud went to the Israeli authorities with the mayor, Abu Maher, but they were told he needed an Israeli lawyer and surveyor. “I have no money for that,” he said. What began as an outpost taking 5 acres has now taken 125, the mayor said. Mr. Nabboud wears a traditional head covering; his grandson, Khaled, 27, wears a Yankees cap. “The land is my inheritance,” he said. “I feel sad I can’t go there. And angry. The army protects them.” http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/world/middleeast/21land.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Actually this touches on a point that I've been thinking about recently. While I don't think that "women should stay at home" I do think that there's a benefit to one spouse staying at home. Everyone, especially those on the right, like to talk about the decline of the "family" and "family values". I think a lot of the decline that they're referring to can be attributed to the fact that both parents have to work full time jobs to maintain the middle class lifestyle that one working parent used to be able to provide. This means that someone else is charged with raising their children during the day. Nowadays, the home is just where the family meets to eat and sleep. And during that short time that the parents and children have "together" they're spending most of it in front of one type of screen or another instead of actually interacting with each other. But to keep with the thread.....ummm....yea...embrace the future and update the 100 yr old technology that rules our lives.

What you mentioned above is, I think, what he is essentially trying to point out. He knows this won't pass but it does bring up the "put up or shut up" point with regard to pre-emptive wars. Right now no one in the US that is not tied to the military is sacrificing anything for this war. Sure, we're picking up the tab but it's being put on the credit card and no one's sending us the statement every month.

Over my left because it's the same side as the camera. Having the site closer to the lens seemed to make sense from an aiming standpoint and if you tilt your head at all during deployment to get your camera out of the way then you're not bringing the site towards the lines on the other side. Of course I'm a brand newbie at this stuff so take that into consideration before listening to my advice

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Nuh uhhh....what set him off was that he hates freedom. At least that's what I was told

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I wasn't really so much looking for a debate. I responded because you were the second person who didn't like the Guardian link. I just want those who repeat the headlines only to read a little deeper into the subject. It's a more complicated issue than the sound bites would lead people to believe. As for the memory, it's not so much MY age that's killing my brain but the age of the 2.25 yr old and 0.17 year old that rule my life these days. The only respite that I get these days are the nap times that I score on the climb to altitude!

I agree. But I'm not sure which is more f'd up. The people robbing or shooting at the people in line or the fact that these people were waiting in line for a week to buy a game console. But I did hear that someone was selling or sold their spot in line for $1300 so maybe it's not so bad after all

Not really. He kissed her neck and then had his head on her lap. Big deal. Keep reading though, and it gets really funny. The flight attendant tried playing some stupid game with the passengers where they would try to guess the age of the flight attendants, and the defendant said "let me guess, you're 12 years old?!" This is part of the intimidation charge. I don't think that will fly. They were upset because the flight attendants refused to serve them alcohol becuase of their kissing. They had not drank any alcohol before requesting a drink. Yea, I read the rest of it. When you continue to badger a FA to the point that the Captain turns on the "fasten seat belt" lights so that the couple will stay in their seats, and then the dude threatens the FA again saying there's going to be serious confrontation between them after the flight, you're asking for it. I loved the part when he asked the FA if the cops were going to be waiting for him and stating that he wasn't "going to go quietly". The dude was just begging to get arrested. He should have just taken his companion to the bathroom and gotten it over with in the first place.

I read it. Sounds rather vague to me. Unless they disrobed they probably did not commit a crime. Go back to the summary and click on "particularly intimate conduct". It gets less vague after that edited to add: It wasn't so much the dry humping but the continued harassament of the FA for the rest of the flight that's going to leave him with a conviction that leave him begging for a reach around.

I read the indictment yesterday and if he did half of what they are accusing him of he's toast. http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/crim/uspersing101106ind.html

Between Pelosi's ownership of a Vineyard, Hotel and Restaurants that all use "non-union" employees, (read illegals) I think she employs more than her share. - I'm sure that those are all "jobs that Americans won't do" Won't do for what she pays. Minimum wage?

Between Pelosi's ownership of a Vineyard, Hotel and Restaurants that all use "non-union" employees, (read illegals) I think she employs more than her share. - I'm sure that those are all "jobs that Americans won't do"

Okidoke, how about: Christian Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1005/p01s01-wome.html New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/international/middleeast/13cnd-mideast.html?ex=1268456400&en=8e9ddbecb96bd32a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland Haaretz: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/765929.html CBC http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2004/04/13/sharon_westbank040413.html USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-08-29-palestine-israel_x.htm http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-08-17-israel-settlements_x.htm And here's a good one from the Swiss but I have no idea who they are. Oct. 2006 is about as recent as you can get though. http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=16847

Pro nation building, fiscally irresponsible, big government, weak immigration, big brother kind of Conservative or the kind I read about in the history books? (sorry........well.........not really)

Nope. And I have no plans to. He may have something interesting or insighful in there somewhere but if his past journalistic portfolio is any indication, it will be difficult to discern fact from crap. Besides, I rarely watch CNN and I'm certainly not going to let his show change that habit.

The guardian was quoting Haaretz and the IDM as their source. Secondly, your assertion that Israel quit building settlements 7 years ago is erroneous. Third, so two years ago Israel said they were going to stop building settlements. I guess we should expect them to start stopping aaaaaaany day now.

Beck's a jerk. Why CNN hired him, I don't kn.....oh wait. That's right. This sort of shit sells. Beck on blaming victims, especially vocal ones "I find this guy [Michael Berg, father of slain journalist Nick Berg] despicable. Everything in me says that. The want to be a better person today than I was yesterday says he's a dad, he's grieving, but I don't buy that. I'm sorry, I don't buy it. I think he is grieving, but I think he's a scumbag as well. I don't like this guy at all." [5/14/04] "But the second thought I had when I saw these people [Hurricane Katrina survivors], and they had to shut down the Astrodome and lock it down, I thought: I didn't think I could hate victims faster than the 9-11 victims." [9/9/05] On killing filmmaker Michael Moore "I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out -- is this wrong?" [5/17/05] On anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan as a prostitute "Who's a bigger prostitute? [Hollywood madam] Heidi Fleiss or [Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver] Terrell Owens? Who's the person out there -- who's the bigger prostitute: Heidi Fleiss or [Democratic National Committee chairman] Howard Dean? No, not even Howard Dean. [Sen.] John Kerry [D-MA]. Who's the bigger prostitute? Who'll do anything for power or money? I mean, at least Heidi Fleiss -- this is saying something -- at least Heidi Fleiss will admit to being a prostitute. You know what I mean? At least she'll say, 'Hey, I'm doing it for cash.' ... Cindy Sheehan. That's a pretty big prostitute there, you know what I mean?" [1/10/06] On supporting torture "[I]f I'm an interrogator, and they say, [imitates Arabic accent] 'I read in your papers that you cannot torture me,' I'll say, 'Yeah, you know, you saw another thing in the papers, you saw pictures of people being tortured. And I just want you to look around, little, uh, Habib, here, I want you to look around the room. Notice one thing is missing, and that's called a camera.' " [6/23/04] The Blind I work at Radio City in midtown Manhattan, and up by the doors, you know, like where the -- you know -- the office kitchen is, in Braille, on the wall, it says "kitchen." You'd have to -- a blind person would have to be feeling all of the walls to find "kitchen." Just to piss them off, I'm going to put in Braille on the coffee pot -- I'm going to put, "Pot is hot." Ow!

The UN still thinks they're being built. So does the Israeli defense ministry and Haaretz and even the White House. From 2 yrs ago: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040414-2.html "The Government of Israel is committed to take additional steps on the West Bank, including progress toward a freeze on settlement activity, removing unauthorized outposts, and improving the humanitarian situation by easing restrictions on the movement of Palestinians not engaged in terrorist activities." From last year: "Aerial photographs by Israel's defence ministry have provided fresh evidence that the government is continuing its rapid expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank despite public statements to the contrary." http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1442185,00.html

I wonder what he thinks about the cleaner diesels these days. I think it's a step in the right direction. But this reminds me of something I read last year about fuel cell cars. Apparently the reason that we weren't expected to see many of those in the near future was because the necessary infrastructure would cost about $12 billion to put in place. For perspective, what's that equate to......2 months in Iraq? Priorities priorities.

The settlers withdrew from the settlements in Gaza and I believe that Israel pulled back the military control of the roads but the military never ceased its air operations/assaults. That was from Gaza only. Sharon's idea was to give up Gaza and continue with the illegal settling of land around Jerusalem and well into the West Bank. That eastward expansion (land grab) is still continuing today, which is why Israel isn't interested in negotiating. They're still annexing.

No they didn't. Israel is still building illegal settlements in the West Bank. Look it up. That's all I'm asking.

I gotta know right now! Before we go any further--! DAMN IT! I'm going to have meatloaf stuck in my head for the rest of the day. AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Wait, he's touring again isn't he?