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Hey everyone! Brooke needs some help, can anybody give her some advice?
I have been interested in women since I can remember, but, I didn't acknowledge it until last year. I couldn't hide it anymore so I talked to and came out to a good friend who is also a lesbian. Most everyone I have come out to have accepted it, and some were even like, "it's about time!" The problem lies with my family and surrounding community. I am from a religious family and all, and I was kinda forced to come out when I wasn't ready to. Well, I was threatened with being kicked out, disownment, etc. therefore, I ha to go back in the closet. I have to pretend that I like guys, and that when I go out with a girl it's just a "girl's night." I can't keep living like this, it making me depressed. I can't afford to be kicked out out and all because I am a college student, and my family and I were once close, I hate to lose them. I keep saying that when I can finally move out it will be fine. I really don't know how to handle the situation.
That's crazy you were forced to be straight!! I mean thats just ridiculous!
Find some local LGBT community groups and join LGBT clubs on campus and become educated. No use in hiding at all.
You don't need to live a double life. If your family doesn't like it then don't bring it up until you're strong enough to stand before them and say you're a gay woman. If that means taking your time, saving some money and finding a new job to pay for an apartment of your own, then DO it.
your parents are just stubborn and don't understand, be mature about it and find a way to get them to see things from your POV. Don't rush it, you were already rushed before and that didn't work well for you so take your time!
I agree with sandra. There's no point in fighting this if you're too young to stand up against your parents financially. Read up and prepare yourself for a debate, you need to be ready to tell them that your choices shouldn't be changed based on whatever idea they have on what's right or wrong wen it comes to who you love.
How do you pretend to like guys long enough to where others won't obviously notice? I think it'll hurt you in the long run if you keep pretending so don't avoid/ignore this and try your hardest to fix it…and by fix it I mean work on yourself, not what others think!
Brooke honey, this is no time to go back in that damned closet! I can see where you may be in a sticky situation since it seems like you can't move out but the ladies have a point. Although you don't want to rebel against your family and lose their trust, you can still come out as a powerful young woman, who fights for justice no matter who disagrees with you.
Classic case of our parents pulling the mom and dad card. Threatening your life choices because you don't "fit in" in their eyes so they give you an ultimatum. I say you find a job and move out. Why live in constant guilt. You should be free to enjoy your life and not let anyone hold you back.
That's wild! Well get away from there! You should never intentionally stay somewhere you know is bad for your emotional health. Don't stay where you're depressed!


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Q: C# regular expression to match a word either as a whole or only have special characters as prefix or suffix I need a regular expression for matching the following conditions:
NPT         - match
@@#NPT      -- match
@@#NPT*)    -- match
testNPT     -- not match
testNPTtest     -- not match
@@NPT##test     -- not match
.NPT.       -- match
.NPT.abc    -- not match

Basically, I  need to match a word (e.g. NPT) whose prefix & suffix are not either alphabet or numeric but will match if it is a single word (NPT) or having prefix or suffix or both only special characters (e.g. @#NPT#$ OR ##NPT)
I have tried the following expression but did not get the desired result
(?<!^[a-z])(\bSM\b)(?![a-z])

A: You might use
(?<![a-z])\bNPT\b(?=\W*(?!\S))

The pattern matches:

*

*(?<![a-z])

*\bNPT\b

*(?= Positive lookahead, assert what is to the right is

*

*\W* Match optional non word characters

*(?!\S) Assert a whitespace boundary to the right

*) Close lookahead

See a regex demo and a C# demo
var regex = new Regex(@"(?<![a-z])\bNPT\b(?=\W*(?!\S))");
string[] strings = {"NPT", "@@#NPT", "@@#NPT*)", "testNPT", "testNPTtest", "@@NPT##test", ".NPT.", ".NPT.abc"};

foreach (String s in strings)
{
    var m = regex.Match(s);
    if (m.Success) {
        Console.WriteLine("{0} --> {1}", s, m.Value);
    }
}

Output
NPT --> NPT
@@#NPT --> NPT
@@#NPT*) --> NPT
.NPT. --> NPT

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Waste management is considered to be the weakest phase in responding to a disaster. This became apparent when Sri Lanka suffered enormously from the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. The City of Galle located on the south coast was severely affected by this event, causing some 4000 deaths and destroying over 15000 houses. The Construction Waste Management (COWAM) project funded by the European Union from 2005-2009 looked at the most sustainable ways of dealing with Construction & Demolition (C&D) waste after a disaster and devised a pilot C&D recycling plant (COWAM Centre) in Galle. This paper reflects on the C&D waste management practices followed by the city authorities during the recovery and reconstruction phase right up to the operation of the COWAM Centre with the intention of seeking best practices for the future. As part of the COWAM case study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with municipal authorities and voluntary organizations to identify the C&D waste management process followed during recovery and reconstruction. Empirical data was collected from actual demolition sites located in Galle to establish the quantity of C&D waste, composition, hazardous substances found, and collection efficiency. Findings revealed that waste was disposed initially into temporary dumping sites and later re-cycled through the COWAM Centre. However, this study found many issues that could have been avoided if Galle Municipal Council had planned and implemented a quick C&D waste management strategy. Key issues which arose were lack of heavy vehicles, lack of manpower, inability to forecast the amount and composition of waste, and inability to identify suitable temporary dumping sites. The characteristics of C&D waste gave a baseline for the design of COWAM Centre. The paper presents a viable approach to overcome issues pertaining to C&D waste management during the aftermath of a disaster through the lessons learned from the COWAM project.


Flash floods and Rome – two things one would not normally associate, but as I remind those envious of my seven years here for the Financial Times, annual rainfall in the Italian capital is far greater than in London.
Only that, rather like monsoons in Asia, the deluge comes in the space of a few months, and those thoughts rushed through my mind as I tried in vain to prevent our ceiling collapsing under the weight of the torrent pouring from the flat above on one occasion during our second year in Rome.
My upstairs neighbour – incidentally living under house detention with a police guard as he awaited trial on criminal charges – welcomed my arrival armed with buckets. My teenage son, meanwhile, was wading out of a flooded underpass, his motorino (moped) submerged. Nearby, an entire roof of a school collapsed, but luckily on a day when the students were away.
The torrential rains also tear up the roads, leaving chains of dangerous potholes that remain for months, triggering bouts of anguished debate over Rome's deteriorating infrastructure and its incompetent mayors, seemingly incapable of arresting what almost all its nearly 3m inhabitants would sum up as the city's relentless decline and degradation. Not just under water, the capital is sinking under debt, whole blocks often blacked out at night as street lights get switched off.
Conferences are held and earnest pledges to clean up the city are made, usually during election campaigns which, given Italy's enduring political instability, come around frequently. Little happens.
It is a city of contradictions. In June, Rome invited the international community to discuss the economic fallout of Italy's mass counterfeit industry, much of it mafia-run. Yet nearby Piazza Navona was filled as usual with hawkers, many of them illegal immigrants who have turned one of Rome's great squares into a tawdry bazaar.
Police, complaining about budget cuts, have long given up doing anything about it, just as gangs of beggars and thieves roam freely around the city, exploiting their own children. In his desperation, or critics would say ineptitude, mayor Ignazio Marino – a former liver transplant surgeon – recently held out the begging bowl, appealing to assembled foreign ambassadors to get their governments to fund the restoration of Rome's crumbling monuments.
La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty), which won best foreign language film at this year's Oscars, portrayed a city of decadent languor. One television presenter instead spoke of a "city of barbarians, its citizens becoming more like wild animals abandoned to themselves. Instead of the great beauty, the capital of Italy seems like the great disgrace".
Such gloomy sentiments reflect a wider national sense of despair and frustration, compounded by a brutal economic recession. It has all been summed up in the polemics and recriminations – alas also quite racist – surrounding the early return from Brazil of its defeated football team, exposed as the slow-to-change and dysfunctional Italy rather than the dynamic and creative force that we hoped for. Disgrace or not, Rome retains its mesmerising beauty. With patience and experience, the expat can navigate its pitfalls. A perplexing bureaucracy is getting more manageable but the punitive tax regime is the price of living in one of the world's most magical cities where wandering around the ancient Forum in an early summer sunset, when the tourist hordes have gone, has little equal.
Leave behind the eyesore bedlam of Piazza Navona and stroll peacefully at night through traffic-free Via dei Coronari, an ancient route for pilgrims heading to the Vatican and named after the rosary-bead sellers who used to work there, now lined with a dwindling number of antiquaries competing with the expanding trash of Chinese-made souvenirs.
L'arte di arrangiarsi – hard to translate but something like the art of figuring out how to get tricky things done – could be applied not just to working around a byzantine bureaucracy but also to discovering how to enjoy Rome to the full.
Although I urge my Italian friends not to take this as an insult, life and social mores in Rome, and even more so in the country's poorer south, have more in common with the Balkans and Middle East than Europe to the north. As I learnt from past experience in Belgrade and Tehran, it is not just bearing pastries or flowers when invited to dinner, or even greeting strangers in a lift. Getting around daily obstacles and doing your job depends on introductions and fostering contacts – from finding a decent doctor and a tax accountant to arranging an interview with a reclusive chief executive. The Vatican, a web of power of its own, has a more defined hierarchy than Iran's Shia theocracy but goodwill, patience and connections can open doors there too.
Thankfully the expat bubble does not really exist in Rome (and yes there are a few places that sell Colman's mustard powder, and growing numbers of Asian groceries). Even the international schools – not all attaining the greatest academic standards but, as we found at American Overseas School of Rome, still fostering a welcoming and secure atmosphere – have as many Italian students as foreign ones. Rents have fallen to more realistic levels since pre-crisis peaks six years ago. (Get a lawyer to look at that contract.) Even if that legendary Italian zest for enjoying life is taking a beating in grim economic times, the beach can still be less than an hour's drive away if you rise early, and a passion for sport prevails.
As a fan of Roma, a club now under US ownership and better for it, there has been both heartbreak and joy on frequent trips to the Stadio Olimpico for late evening matches where I became part of a tribe that lives in implacable rivalry with local adversaries Lazio.
Football is still the occasion for a traditional fun family outing, but, sadly here too of late, the city has displayed its criminal underpinnings.
As I write this last dispatch before returning to the UK, the news has come in of the tragic death of 29-year-old Ciro Esposito, a Napoli fan who had come to Rome for the Italian cup final against Fiorentina seven weeks earlier. He was shot in the chest while trying to intervene to help children caught in the middle of clashes outside the stadium. A Roma fan who allegedly fired four shots with a pistol has been charged with his death.
A chaotic and spellbinding city, Rome has its darker side.
Dinmore's verdict . . .


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Q: Get PSObject array size or count I create an array like this:
$Array = @()

$Item = New-Object PSObject
$Item | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name item1 -Value test
$Item | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name item2 -Value test

$Array += $Item

Now I want to add a check to determine if $Item is empty before adding it in $Array. How can I get the member count of $Item ?
I tried stuff like :
$Item.count
$Item.length
@($Item).count
($Item | Measure).count
($Item | Get-Member).count
$Item.psobject.members.count

But none of them gives me the actual member count.

A: You can use the hidden .PsObject.Properties to either check for
$Item.PSobject.Properties.Value.count or
$Item.PSobject.Properties.Names.count
$Item = New-Object PSObject
$Item.Psobject.Properties.value.count
0

$Item | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name item1 -Value test
$Item.Psobject.Properties.value.count
1

$Item | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name item2 -Value test
$Item.Psobject.Properties.value.count
2

A: The correct way is:
($Item|Get-Member -Type NoteProperty).count

A: The following Get_ItemCount function could help:
Function Get_ItemCount {
    $aux = $($item | Get-Member -MemberType NoteProperty)
    if ( $aux -eq $null ) {
        0
    } elseif ( $aux -is [PSCustomObject] ) {
        1
    } else {
        $aux.Count
    }
}

$Item = New-Object PSObject
Get_ItemCount                  # 0
$Item | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name item1 -Value test
Get_ItemCount                  # 1
$Item | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name item2 -Value test
Get_ItemCount                  # 2

Output
PS D:\PShell> .\SO\55064810.ps1
0
1
2
PS D:\PShell>


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Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's decision to seek a fifth term as president has triggered a wave of protests in the Algerian capital Algiers and elsewhere in the country, with some observers saying that the protests, which erupted on Friday and continued over the weekend, could bring the North African nation to the threshold of its own Arab Spring.
They foresee scenarios ranging from the postponement of the elections, scheduled for 19 April, to a transition from the system of government that has prevailed in the country since Algeria won its independence from France in July 1962.
"After Friday prayers, hundreds of citizens, the majority of them young, assembled in Algiers and other parts of the country to express demands of a political nature," the official Algeria Press Service (APS) reported.
It said that the demonstrators had proceeded to march, "in the midst of an intensive security presence," carrying Algerian flags and placards saying "Yes to Justice," "Peaceful Protest," and "Change and Reform," and demanding that Bouteflika retract his decision to seek another term.
"Several other regions experienced similar marches and rallies without incident," it added, listing the cities of Annaba, Constantine, Bejaia, Batna, Skikda and Oum Al-Bouaghi to the east and Tizi-Ouzou, Bouira, Boumerdes and Tebaza in the centre of the country.
In the west of the country, "hundreds of citizens" took part in "peaceful marches" in Oran, Tiaret, Mostaganem and Relizane, the report said, adding that these had passed off "in a calm atmosphere with no excesses".
There were also marches in southern towns and cities such as Ouargla, Laghouat, Hassi Messaoud, Adrar and Al-Oued, where "peaceful rallies and marches were organised in the main streets," APS said.
The coverage of the demonstrations, reminiscent of those that have rocked Sudan over the last two months, was striking, as if the Algerian news outlet was appearing to encourage "the popular rejection of a fifth mandate" for Bouteflika, in contrast to other domestic media.
According to the APS, the police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators in the capital to keep them from reaching the Presidential Palace. However, it said that the police had avoided actions that might provoke the demonstrators and had taken preemptive measures by arresting many activists.
When Bouteflika announced his decision to run for another term as president on 10 February, he vowed to institute "radical reforms" if he won. However, many have questioned the feasibility of this pledge, not least because the 81-year-old politician spent 80 days in a Paris hospital in 2013 after suffering a stroke and he continues to require regular tests abroad.
A recent statement from the president's office in Algiers said that Bouteflika "will travel to Geneva on 24 February in order to conduct periodic medical examinations." The statement was released on 21 February and was perhaps deliberately timed to coincide with one of his few appearances in public since 2013.
Bouteflika was seen on national television attending the swearing-in ceremony of Tayeb Belaiz as president of Algeria's Constitutional Council to succeed Mourad Medelci who died end of January.
On 2 February, the ruling coalition government in Algiers released a statement nominating Bouteflika for a fifth term in office following a meeting of its component parties, the National Liberation Front (FLN), the majority party headed by Bouteflika, the National Rally for Democracy (RND) headed by Ahmed Ouyahia, the current prime minister, the Algerian Popular Movement (MPA) headed by Ammara Benyounes and the Rally of Hope of Algeria (TAJ) headed by Amar Ghoul.
The parties told their supporters to prepare themselves against "any provocation" that might undermine the smooth conduct of the electoral process.
Opposition party the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) headed by Mohcine Belabbas called for the resignation of Bouteflika and his government, the formation of a national-salvation government, and the cancellation of the elections.
Despite the universal acknowledgement of the peaceful nature of the protests and the appeals for dialogue and restraint from across the political spectrum, the continuation of the demonstrations in Algeria this week nevertheless carry with them the threat of escalation.


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A medical building at 5 Summit Ave. is in the running for the ugliest structure in Hackensack, above and below, especially after the ground-floor garage was declared unsafe and fenced off. A resident of Thompson Street complains valet parking attendants take up spaces on the block and endanger children. Now, the garage is being demolished.
The entrance and small lobby are in the middle section, above. The building is crammed into the corner of Summit Avenue and Essex Street, near Hackensack University Medical Center.
The building is open during "regular hrs.," according to a sign on the fence blocking access to the parking garage on the Summit Avenue side.
Marty Gottlieb, the New York Times veteran who took over The Record's newsroom more than a year ago, continues to disappoint with his selection of stories for the Sunday paper, and his mindless obsession with sports.
Today, two out of four front-page stories don't belong anywhere near Page 1.
The best pieces are staff written -- John C. Ensslin's account of the events leading up to the suicide of the son of Freeholder David Ganz, and Scott Fallon's report on a move to cap pollution at Ford Motor Co.'s dumping ground in Ringwood.
The rest of today's paper is disappointing.
On the front of Local, Road Warrior John Cichowski continues to stray far afield from his commuting beat with a column on the Yellow Dot, a bird that targets the cars of seniors with a shower of droppings (L-1).
A story about the Englewood school board race has Hackensack residents wondering what happened to coverage of the city's school election (L-1).
On the Better Living cover, is this the first story about the high-quality hot- and cold-food bars at Whole Foods Market since the Paramus store opened four years ago (BL-1)?
On the Opinion front, Mike Kelly asks three rhetorical questions in his first paragraph, completely turning readers off (O-1).
In more than 20 years of writing a column, Kelly still does not get that readers are looking for him to go out on a limb and express strong opinions, not to ask questions.
Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and her deputy, Dan Sforza, continue to fall flat on their faces in their struggle to find enough local news.
In Saturday's thin paper, the local-news editors and their minions needed a Dean's List (L-2) and three long wire-service obituaries to fill the Local section (L-5 and L-6).


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Victim of Norfolk hit-and-run speaks out from his hospital bed
by: Jason Marks
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A man who was the victim of a weekend hit-and-run agreed to speak to 10 On Your Side from his hospital room.
59-year-old Nathaniel Thornton was walking home Sunday night when he was hit and then run over by a truck. It was just after 8 p.m. at the end of a long work day. The driver never stopped.
"He left me for dead sure enough," Thornton said. "The man must have been crazy man, to do something like that and not stop."
Thornton says doctors had to put a metal rod in his leg after it was crushed by the truck.
"There wasn't anything I could do after he knocked me back," Thornton added. "I lost balance and everything and before I knew it he was rolling over on top of me."
The truck's tires somehow missed Thornton's head, but the bones in his leg were crushed.
"When I tried to lift my leg, I could feel my bones were broken," Thornton added. "I said 'oh lord please don't take my feelings from me where I can't walk no more.'"
Doctors say Thornton will need months of physical therapy.
"I just wanted to get up so bad, to get somebody to run that truck down, because I wanted that dude right there and then," Thornton said.
Thornton believes the truck was light gold or tan. He was only able to see the front grill, but he says it looked like a pickup truck or SUV.
"I don't know why the dude didn't stop," Thornton asked. "He must have had no license or something illegal in the truck or something."
He and his family are hoping someone can help police find the driver who left him for dead.
"I want the guy caught so he could be punished for what he did," Thornton said.
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NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) -- Firefighters responded to an overnight house fire.
Emergency communications said they received the call just before 1:30 a.m. for a fire in the 100 block of Randall Avenue.
by Brett Hall / Jan 17, 2020
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) -- A group of residents from Norfolk's St. Paul's public housing communities say they hope a judge can force the city to change its public housing plans.
On Thursday, around 30 residents and community activists joined with attorneys to protest what they called a "scheme" to redevelop nearly 200 acres of downtown Norfolk.
Virginia Beach man sentenced to 19 years for conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) -- A Virginia Beach man was sentenced Thursday to more than 19 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine.
Dante Jermel Davis, 40, was the subject of court-authorized phone surveillance by authorities, according to a Department of Justice news release.
Portsmouth Mayor John Rowe won't seek reelection
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Junction Hotel farewells one of the industry's finest chefs
The Junction Hotel will soon bid farewell to chef Cheryl Wilson, a talented woman who has long been the driving force behind some of the venue's most delicious meals and sweets.
Having spent 38 years developing her craft at a variety of venues from Sydney to New Zealand and here in the Hunter, industry stalwart Cheryl Wilson is preparing to serve up her last dish, but only in the professional sense.
"Cooking is what I love. It's who I am and that will not stop just because I am retiring. In saying that though, I have found incredible pleasure cooking for others and it has always brought me so much joy," she said.
"Cooking is what I love. It's who I am and that will not stop just because I am retiring. In saying that though, I have found incredible pleasure cooking for others and it has always brought me so much joy..."
Cheryl's career started from humble beginnings in the early 1980s at The Australian Club in Sydney where she was the first female kitchen hand to ever be employed at the venue.
"It was a challenging environment in those days, but I was proud of my role at the club because it was a prestigious venue and proved a great start for my career," she said.
Cheryl later moved to yet another iconic Sydney venue, the Sydney Journalist's Club before a tree change took her to Glenn Innes where she started her first business, a pub bistro launched with some friends.
"It was our first real go at running a business and I probably didn't completely realise it at the time, but those lessons would serve me well in the years to come," she said.
Cheryl Wilson and Junction Hotel head chef Warren Fouracre
After learning the ropes of running a business, Cheryl and her partner moved to his native home of New Zealand where they opened their own vegetarian cafe and also attended trade school to become qualified chefs.
"At that time in the mid 80s the Australian dollar had good value in New Zealand and so we bought the cafe in Dunedin which was already being run by Australian owners," she said.
"Back then you couldn't even really go and buy a coffee in New Zealand and import restrictions made things difficult, so we went to the markets each day for things like spinach and cauliflower. It certainly took some creativity to formulate an interesting menu in that kind of environment."
When Cheryl and her husband started a family in 1988, they returned to Australia, first to Eden on the South Coast and then to Port Stephens where they spent time working as chefs at both Shoal Bay Country Club and Anchorage Resort.
"It was lovely up there, but when our girls became teenagers we moved down to Newcastle and that's when we opened Cha Chaz at the Junction. My husband and I ran that business together for 15 years, living just around the corner and putting in some very long hours.
"But through that we've raised our kids, bought a house, and all the things you want to do. It's been a lifestyle choice that we've been living for almost 40 years."
When the couple decided to take leave from the long hours and commitment of owning and running a business, Cheryl took her extensive list of skills across the road to the Junction Hotel.
"We still live just around the corner and it's been a wonderful place to work," she said.
"The people there are what really make it special, but I've also had the opportunity to be creative with the menu and take a leading role as pastry chef, which has been terrific because baking is something very special to me."
"The people there are what really make it special, but I've also had the opportunity to be creative with the menu and take a leading role as pastry chef, which has been terrific because baking is something very special to me..."
While Cheryl was quick to admit that making a mark in the hospitality industry takes both hard work and commitment, she also believes there is no other industry that provides the same opportunities for growth, variety and travel.
"You can be anything you want, wherever you want. That is the beauty of this industry," she said.
"For young people interested in making hospitality their career, yes it's hard work and long hours and you sometimes have to be patient, but there are no limits to what you can become if you put your mind to it. It provides skills that can take you anywhere you want to go, within the industry and around the world. There is no other industry quite like it."
"You can be anything you want, wherever you want. That is the beauty of this industry..."
The challenge for the Junction Hotel now is to find a replacement chef as talented as Cheryl.
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Q: Firebase messging crashes the app only in release build My application uses Firebase messaging and the application works fine in debug mode, but when I build it in the release mode it crashes upon receiving a message from Firebase. I'm assuming that the onMessage.listen somehow crashes the app. The devices where I tested it were Android devices. Is there anything that I could've missed during the Firebase setup within the app or are there any known fixes for this?
Edit - this is the error that I get:
E/AndroidRuntime(26859): FATAL EXCEPTION: firebase-iid-executor
E/AndroidRuntime(26859): Process: com.company.scrcapp, PID: 26859
E/AndroidRuntime(26859): java.lang.IllegalAccessError: Illegal class access: 'b.c.a.b.d.a' attempting to access 'b.c.a.b.b.a.c' (declaration of 'b.c.a.b.d.a' appears in base.apk)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at b.c.a.b.d.a.<init>(Unknown Source:169)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at b.c.a.b.d.a.<init>(:1)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at com.google.firebase.messaging.l0.b(:1)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at com.google.firebase.messaging.Y.e(:2)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at com.google.firebase.messaging.m.call(:1)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at b.c.a.b.e.F.run(Unknown Source:4)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at com.google.firebase.messaging.n.execute(Unknown Source:0)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at b.c.a.b.e.m.c(Unknown Source:20)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at com.google.firebase.messaging.o.c(:1)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at b.c.a.b.a.a.b(:1)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at b.c.a.b.a.a.a(Unknown Source:21)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at b.c.a.b.a.g.run(Unknown Source:10)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at com.google.android.gms.common.util.e.b.run(Unknown Source:6)
E/AndroidRuntime(26859):        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:923)

A: The problem was solved by adding code below to /android/app/build.gradle:
...
buildTypes {
        release {
            ...
            shrinkResources false
            minifyEnabled false
        }
    }

and adding code below to /android/gradle.properties:
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Because the first four just had to be defective! 😳 Anyone else in utter and complete denial!? I'm 33, married, and this is our first pregnancy. I don't know how to feel and that makes me feel like a bad Mommy already. I know the excitement will come, but for right now, I'm still in shock. I went to my first appointment yesterday where I did a urine sample(positive) and a blood draw....and I'm a wreck awaiting my HCG numbers. Whether I'm ready or not, I have a Pisces baby on the way!!!
So funny! I also took five!! 😂🤦🏼♀ I have endometriosis and we only tried for two months... still terrified of a miscarriage as I'm only 5w2d... SO many emotions!
I'm also 33 and on my first pregnancy. I took several tests after the first one just to be sure! Being scared is totally normal, your life will literally never be the same again. But feeling scared and a bit in denial definitely doesn't make you a bad mom! It's early days, the excitement will come.
Thank you! My hubby is beyond excited, so that's helping a lot!
Thank you for that!! I know it's just the fear of the unknown!
I am almost 6 weeks and am still in denial. I have a 19 year old who has his own child on the way in October and I have a 15 year old daughter. I feel like my body doesn't know what to do with itself. It's been so long since I've been pregnant and so much has changed. I'm happy but I still can't believe this is happening.
I've taken 5 so far and am going to buy one today because I'm just so in shock!
Oh WOW!!! You are going to do great!! But I'm right there with you!!
I completely understand! Did the one today give a BFP as well?
"I awkwardly checked the stalls to make sure they were empty and locked myself in the back stall... I took the .test -- right there in the grocery store bathroom."
I took a pregnancy test it came back positive then I took the other one it was negative then five minutes later the second line showed up but very faint. Am I pregnant ?
I took 5 pregnancy test....am I overly nervous ?!


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Lion in the Jungle CD
I (MC Till) picked up the Cypress Hill album, Elephants on Acid, threw it on, and was very inspired. I thought B-Real and Sen Dog did their thing. However, it is DJ Muggs and the beats that captured me more than anything. If you have heard the album, you know there are a lot of instrumental interludes without drums. There are simply these eerie samples that kind of meander in between songs. After about my second listen to the album I said to myself, "I'm going to jack these samples, chop them, and throw some drums to them." And that's exactly what I did. I made a beat tape called Elephants on Interludes.
My friend SamSun Zulu heard the beat tape. He caught some inspiration. He called me. We talked. He did some writing. He did some recording. I did some mixing. The result is Lion in the Jungle.
This album is Hip-hop to its core. The original inspiration came from one of Hip-hop's most accomplished, most independent groups of all time, Cypress Hill. I tried very hard to create the original beat tape as raw and authentic as possible. SamSun came in and wrote the perfect lyrics to match. They are Hip-hop through and through with braggadocio, Jamaican patois, and 5% inspiration intertwining for a very confident lyrical presence.
SamSun and I hope you give this album a thorough listen and then hit us up. We would love to know what you think about the music. Contact us anytime. Text me what you think about the album at 812-430-4464.
(Although a print-on-demand CD-R, this physical replication of 'Lion in the Jungle' is a solid product that will last for decades to come. If you have any issues with it, just let us know and we are more than happy to send you a replacement copy. Thanks for your patience as we work up to releasing professional CD's with extended liner notes and other pizazz. Only 30 copies available.)


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The College-100 (C-100) is a network of student presidents from elite schools (including the Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Oxford, Cambridge, McGill, top liberal arts schools, and flagship state schools); Rhodes, Truman, and Gates scholars; Olympians; and other distinguished young people.
The C-100′s advisors include Ambassadors Ed Perkins, Stape Roy and Tom Pickering; US senators; Governor Bill Richardson; and other distinguished national figures.
Edward J. Perkins has served as Director of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Corps, a position that would have required a close working relationship with America's intelligence services. J. Stapleton Roy was Assistant Secretary of State for intelligence and research from 1999 to 2000 and is currently Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc. Thomas R. Pickering served as U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Russia, India, Israel, Jordan, Nigeria, and El Salvador — a posting that led to the dubious distinction of being called "a Reagan point man in Central America's dirty wars." Pickering currently chairs the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, an NGO financed by George Soros, who could hardly be described as a disinterested party in the "push for justice" in Russia.
Daughter: How can one take land which belongs to someone else, cultivating that land and living off it?
Father: There is nothing difficult about that. All you need is force. Once you have power you can.
Daughter: But is there no law? Are there no courts in Israel?
Father: Of course there are. But they only held up matters very briefly. The Arabs did go to our courts and asked for their land back from those who stole it. And the judges decided that yes, the Arabs are the legal owners of the fields they have tilled for generations.
Daughter: Well then, if that is the decision of the judges… we are a law-abiding nation.
Father: No, my dear, it is not quite like that. If the law decides against the thief, and the thief is very powerful, then he makes another law supporting his view.
–The father was Maariv founder and first editor, Dr. Israel Carlebach. This exchange was published in Ma'ariv, 25th December 1953.
Since December 1947, the Zionist movement has carried out the largest, planned and comprehensive ethnic cleansing operation in modern history: the ongoing Nakba. Between that month and April of 1949, 675 Palestinian towns and villages were totally depopulated. Their inhabitants are still homeless and are refugees to this day. Israel was declared on 78 percent of the Mandate territory of Palestine, 93 percent of which is Palestinian-owned land.2 In the southern half of Mandate Palestine, the Naqab (Negev), Jewish possession did not exceed 60,000 dunams; amounting to less than 0.5 percent of the 12,577,000 dunams of the Beer Sheba district. This negligible Jewish presence was augmented by force through the military occupation of the district in 1948 (the town of Beer Sheba was occupied on October 21, 1948), massacres and forced displacement of the indigenous population leading to the almost complete ethnic cleansing of the district. The majority of the more than 100,000 native Palestinians of the district were expelled to the Gaza Strip, Al Khalil (Hebron) district, Jordan, and the Sinai.
After declaring its independence, Israel applied martial law to those Palestinians who had not been displaced beyond the borders of the new state. In the Beer Sheba district, it took the drastic measure of rounding up all those Palestinians who remained, 12 percent of the original population of the district, and concentrated them in a reserve to the north and north east of the town of Beer Sheba. This area, known as the siyag ("fenced off area"), makes up 7 percent of the district. In 1952, Israel confiscated a further 1,225,000 dunams of the land owned by the internally displaced southern Palestinians who had become its citizens; reclassifying them as Present Absentees. Then in 1965, it passed the Planning and Construction Law which rendered around forty of the Palestinian villages in the siyag (as well as a further dozen villages in the Galilee) unrecognized, meaning they were not to receive any government services (such as water, electricity, education, roads, waste collection and healthcare) and that all construction in these areas became illegal.
Beginning in 1968, Israel planned seven townships—the so-called "recognized villages" of Rahat, Tel Sheva, Kessifa, Ar'ara, Shegib, Hura, Laqiya—on a total land area of 57,778 dunams. The combined purpose and effect of the recognized and unrecognized communities is to confiscate what remains of Palestinian land in the Naqab, and concentrate the Palestinian population in residential dormitories to provide cheap labor for Jewish industries while detaching them from their land and depriving them of their pastoral and agricultural livelihoods. By 2002, about 50 percent of the 130,000 Palestinians in the district had been concentrated in the planned townships, while the other half had managed to resist displacement and remain in the squalid conditions of the unrecognized villages.
Various aspects of displacement and land confiscation in the Naqab—including such practices as the terrorism perpetrated by the "Green Patrols;" ongoing house, school and clinic demolitions; the environmental and health impact of industrial zones and the dumping of toxic wastes; and the aerial spraying of poisonous pesticides on Palestinian crops and communities—have been discussed elsewhere.3 What I examine in what follows is one particular aspect of the Naqab's ongoing Nakba: Israel's use of the Ottoman "mewat" classification of land as legal justification for the ongoing confiscation of Palestinian land in the Naqab.
Israel considers itself a successor state. If this assumption refers to its military conquest outside the limits of the Partition Plan, then the inadmissibility of conquest and the Fourth Geneva Convention safeguard the sanctity of the property of the subjugated people. International law stipulates that, upon extending a new sovereignty on a territory, people and land go together, both stay protected. Expelling people and confiscating their land is not permissible. On the other hand, if this assumption refers to the UN Partition Plan resolution No. 181, which was the basis of Israel's declaration of independence in 1948, this resolution clearly stipulates that Arabs in the Jewish-majority state (and vice versa) shall enjoy full civil and political rights, including ownership, without discrimination on any grounds and of course without expulsion.
As such, Israeli authorities had to find ways of inventing legal justifications for the confiscation of Palestinian lands. In the Naqab, the main justification has been that Palestinians did not have rights to their land under the regime's that preceded Israel, and the title to these lands should thus revert to the state. The Head of the Land Title Settlement Unit in the Southern District, Havatzeler Yahel, gave a summary of the standard Israeli position in this regard when he boldly stated that "neither the Ottoman Empire nor the British Mandate recognized the ownership of nomadic Bedouin over land in the Negev… Israeli Law… is based on earlier Ottoman and British Legislation."4 The Goldberg Report follows the same contention, based as it is on the claims that the Ottomans never recognized the Bedouin ownership in Beer Sheba and that the Palestinian population of the Naqab are "nomads."5 In examining the legal arguments surrounding these claims, we find that the main Israeli justification is that the lands of the Naqab were classified as mewat lands under Ottoman law, and that this classification continued under the British Mandate.
It is clear that the objective of the Ottoman law was to encourage cultivation for the good of the community and not to restrict it. In 1969, the Israeli Knesset passed a law stating that "all mewat land is state land," and that long-time possession does not confer ownership rights.7 By claiming that Naqab lands were classified as mewat and then passing legislation transferring mewat lands to state control, Israel seemingly got around the international legal protection of Palestinians and their properties in the Naqab. The main problem, as I show in the next section, is that at no point in the centuries of Ottoman rule, or the decades of British occupation, were the lands of the Naqab ever classified as mewat. On the contrary, Palestinians' ownership of these lands was recognized in both the Ottoman and Mandate periods.
Ownership of land in Islam rests ultimately with the umma (Islamic nation), as God's trustee. The Ottomans adopted and developed the same Islamic principle into a refined set of state laws. In the words of Halil Inalcik, an authority on Ottoman history, "the underlying argument always was that such lands belonged to God, or to the imam as His trustee, who represented the Islamic community, it was his duty to see that such lands were administered in the way that would best serve the interests of the community and Islamic state."8 The principle was applied in a two-tier system: (1) rakaba, ownership rested with the Caliph, imam, Sultan or state, (2) tasarruf, manfa'a, usufruct. While the first was always held by the state, the second was granted to a member(s) of the community, ra'iya, in a manner close to independent ownership in that the land in question may be inherited. Over 90 percent of arable land in the Ottoman empire, was considered state land (miri). The rest had been removed from this domain by a special dispensation from the Sultan. The underlying aim was to put all land for the use of the community as cultivators of the land and a source of income tax for the general benefit of the umma. Accordingly, foreigners were not allowed to own land. Late in the nineteenth century, under intense European pressure, the Ottoman laws restricting the sale of land to non-Muslims were relaxed. But these sales were insignificant.
For over fourteen centuries, the land was cultivated under Islamic rules, and Beer Sheba land was no exception. It was cultivated where possible according to rainfall and taxes were paid. There was no question that such land was not mewat. We have one of the earliest Ottoman documents to prove this. The Dafteri Mufassel of 1596, one of the earliest Ottoman Tax Registers, gives information on sites in the Beer Sheba Sub-District which grew wheat, barley and summer crops (e.g. maize, melon) and paid taxes accordingly. Remarkably, the names of these sites remained the same until the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
The boundaries of individual ownership of the land in most of Palestine, including Beer Sheba, was known and acknowledged by Custom Law (al-'urf wa al-'ada). In other words, it is an observed legal practice and the relevant actors consider it to be law. On this basis tracts of land were bought, sold, inherited and taxes paid for. The town site of Beer Sheba itself was "purchased", not confiscated, from al-Mohamadiyeen, Azazema, in 1900. If the land was mewat or state land, this would not be needed. A proof of this may be found in two documents registered at the Shari'a Court in Jerusalem, in the period 1906-1910. The first of these two documents deals with appointing a power of attorney to carry out the transaction of the ownership of a tract of land in Abu Sdeir "whose borders are known, requiring no description or delimitation as well-known to all,"11 and the second in Khirbet Muleih "judged by District Council to be the property of Sheikh Ismail."12 These locations are deep into Beer Sheba district and roughly correspond to sites in the 1596 Tax Register.
Thus it may be concluded that during the Ottoman period (1517 – 1917), land ownership in Beer Sheba was recognized, its boundaries were defined through customary law; land was purchased and sold by individual owners; and citizens paid taxes. There is no evidence whatsoever that land in the Beer Sheba district was at any point classified as mewat.
Arab scholars have written about Palestinian clans since the tenth century, and particularly through the description of Dar al Haj al-Masri and al-Shami. European accounts of Naqab lands and tribes began with the Napoleon Description de l'Egypte, and continued through the writings of European missionaries, travelers and spies such as W. M. Thompson, Edward Hull, Victor Guérin, Alois Musil, Max von Oppenheim, T.E. Lawrence, C. Leonard Woolley and Britain's Royal Geographic Society.13 Each of these records, taken on its own, would be sufficient to dispel the Zionist mythologies that have been used to justify the confiscation of Beer Sheba land on the pretext that this land had no owners and that it was barren. Taken together, the Zionist myth of a "land without a people" appears for what it is: a pure forgery and outright mendacity.
Beer Sheba Sub-District, as delineated by the Mandate government of Palestine, is the largest district of Palestine, at 12,577,000 dunams, or 62 percent of Israel today. Apart from grazing, its southern half is rich in minerals and archeological sites dating back to the fourth century A.D, while the northern half is fertile and was the home of 95 percent of the district's population who used to live and cultivate their land, with only 5 percent living on grazing. The total population of Beer Sheba district was about 100,000 in 1948. Israeli population estimates are considerably lower because they erroneously use the 1931 census figures, which do not correct for underestimation of females or absence of figures for some tribes.
The British Mandate government listed 77 official clans (ashiras) grouped into seven major tribes, in addition to Beer Sheba town and about a dozen settlements around police stations. As illustrated earlier, the land ownership has always been held by Custom Law, on which basis individual plots were sold, inherited, mortgaged, rented, divided or taxes paid. This customary ownership of land was recognized by the British government in the person of Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill, and Herbert Samuel, the first High Commissioner of Palestine.14 In March 1921, Churchill met with leading Beer Sheba sheikhs, Sheikh Hussein Abu Sitta and Sheikh Freih Abu Middain, and assured them that their land ownership and Custom Law are respected.15 Indeed, Article 45 of the Palestine Order in Council confirmed that legal jurisdiction in Beer Sheba district would be governed by tribal custom. The government waived the Land Registry fees to facilitate the acquisition of title deeds, but the clans did not take up the offer as they saw no need for confirming land ownership on paper. Their response was "with this (pointing to their swords), we register", meaning they could defend their land against aggressors.
During the British military administration (1917-1920), the Zionists took steps for the eventual takeover of territory in Palestine. Chaim Weizmann headed the newly formed Zionist Commission for Palestine and appointed Herbert Samuel, the Jewish future High Commissioner for Palestine, as the head of its Advisory Committee.16 Weizmann urged the British to close Land Registry books to prevent rise in land prices and called for the formation of a Land Commission to examine land status in Palestine. The most urgent task was to possess as much land as possible, particularly 'state land, waste land', 'abandoned' and uncultivated land, whose definition was left to interpretation.17 When Samuel took his post as High Commissioner of Palestine under the Mandate, his bias was clearly in favor of Zionist interests. During his tenure (1920-1925) he issued dozens of ordinances changing or modifying land laws in order to enable Zionist acquisition of land. As a prelude he engineered the formation of the Land Commission to evaluate available land for Jewish settlement.
Contrary to general practice in which country surveys begin with topographical maps, there was great rush to produce cadastral maps. A survey department was hastily established using the services of highly experienced British colonial officials, particularly from Egypt. The aim, as Weizmann demanded, was to undertake "legal examination of the validity of all land title deeds in Palestine."18 Thus, the extent and ownership of private land, if proven beyond doubt, would be determined. All else would be subject to interpretation as 'state or waste land', open for Jewish settlement.
The Zionist pressure on the British Mandate to start immediately land survey pertaining to ownership of land, rather than the basic topographical mapping, caused confusion and delayed the surveying project for almost eight years. The necessary ordinance ("the Land Settlement Ordinance") was finally promulgated in 1928 using the Australian Torrens system. The British started applying this system, and by the end of 1946, the initial triangulation was completed for Palestine from Khalasa in the south to el Khalisa in the north. The emphasis was always on the coastal plain and water resources and, in particular, on areas with Jewish land ownership or interest.
The British, however, left Palestine in a hurry in May 1948 leaving the armed Zionists to deal with the defenseless Palestinians. As such, the map of completed Land Settlement (of title), up to 1947, which covered only 20% of Palestine (5,243,042 dunams as of 30 April 1947) corresponds very closely to the area in Palestine proposed to be the northern part of a Jewish state under the Partition Plan of 1947. In this area lies the Jewish-held land during the Mandate, which was about 5% of Palestine. During the Mandate, the British saw no urgent need to complete Land Settlement in the Galilee, West Bank and Naqab because it was predominantly Arab. After 1948, Israel used this accidental fact to show that no title existed for Arab owners in these areas. Thus, Israeli legislation created new criteria for settlement of title to deny Arab ownership and confiscate land, and were particularly applied to Palestinian properties in Beer Sheba.
When Britain decided to abandon its obligations in Palestine after WWII, without completing the Land Settlement, the British Mandate, by way of compensation, undertook an aerial survey in 1945-1946. Over 5000 aerial photos were taken mostly at a scale of 1:15,000, yet again with emphasis on the coastal areas with Jewish concentration, and less emphasis on the West Bank, Jordan River and Beer Sheba district. The populated northern half of Beer Sheba district was covered by this aerial survey. The photographs show intensive and close cultivation everywhere, which belies the Israeli myth that it was barren. This is further proof that cultivation and land ownership have been maintained and recognized, at least since 1596.
In order not to be exposed, the Jews submitted to the following court session an undertaking to the District Commissioner not to plough the land in question. Otherwise the Court would have clearly ruled against them. The land was never registered in the Land Registry. Yet it appeared as 'Jewish' in maps prepared by the Jewish National Fund's Yosef Weitz, and settler colonies were built on it after 1948.
The British Mandate never considered lands in Beer Sheba district as State Land or State Domain. Indeed, maps showing State Land (Domain) in Palestine in 1947, just before the end of the Mandate clearly do not include the land of Beer Sheba. To conclude, the British did not even enforce their own 1921 mewat ordinance created by Herbert Samuel. More importantly, like the Ottoman authorities before them, the British Mandate authorities recognized Palestinians' individual and customary ownership in Beer Sheba. They did not consider this land to be mewat or State land.
1. The voice criterion is not acceptable. What was needed is a "modern" or "objective" criterion.
2. The distance to mewat land should be greater than 1.5 miles (2.5 km). The distance is the criterion.
3. The distance is to be measured from a town or village.
4. Cultivated (miri) tract of land is not an acceptable point of measurement, as a town or village would be.
5. Similarly, a movable abode such as tents is not an acceptable reference, even if this cluster of tents includes a school or cemetery.
6. Also unacceptable is an inhabited area with amenities, houses and some cultivation around a government centre such as police or railway station.
7. Also unacceptable are measurements from an isolated house at the edge of a village.
8. An Arab tribe abode should prove existence before 1858, otherwise all cultivated land after 1858 will be classified mewat (the case of Arab Suead).
9. To prove that an area is not mewat, cultivation must cover at least 50% of the land.
10. Tax records are not proof of ownership.
12. The onus of proof of ownership lies with the holder – that is, he has no ownership rights unless he proves the opposite. His long history before the arrival of the Jewish immigrants does not count.
In short, the Israeli judiciary has made it absolutely impossible for Palestinians to argue that their land is not mewat land, thereby "legalizing" the state confiscation of these lands. Of course, Israeli law is the law of the conqueror, a tool to deprive the vanquished of their rights. Thus, mirroring the conversation between father and daughter quoted at the beginning of this essay, not only does the Israeli legal system offer no redress for Palestinians, it has been one of the primary means through which Zionist injustices have been committed.
The often-touted slogan, stated in Israel's declaration of independence, that Israel made the desert bloom, has met with abject failure. With very limited means and capital, depending on rain only, Palestinians before 1948 were able to cultivate anywhere between 2 to 5 million dunams. Israelis, with their massive capital wealth, have only been able to irrigate around 880,000 dunams. Their agricultural produce hardly competes with the produce of the limited agricultural land in Gaza with its salty water.
Another indicator of this failure was the dismal performance of the so-called "development towns." Jews from Arab countries, who were brought in on the assumption that they were used to hot arid climate, failed to flourish in the Naqab. The Ashkenazi Kibbutzim have fared no better. There are no new recruits, their population is aged, the remnants of the 1948 conquest. Although Jewish settlements of the Beer Sheba district consume about half of the irrigation water, the value of their produce is negligible.
Jewish immigrants have tended to congregate near urban centers. Only 73,000 of the Jewish Israelis in the Beer Sheba district have moved in to the rural Kibbutzim and Moshavim in the vast area of 12,000 sq. km. That is 10 percent of Palestinian population of Beer Sheba had they not been ethnically cleansed in 1948. The remaining 800,000 Jewish Israelis in the district live in three cities and a number of dysfunctional "development towns." Of those, over 200,000 are recent Russian immigrants and twice as many are Arab Jews lower down on the socio-economic ladder.
On the other side of this, the Palestinians from Beer Sheba number about three quarters of a million. About 15 percent of them have managed to remain in Israel and the rest are refugees. Most of these refugees are in the occupied and blockaded Gaza Strip, crammed at a density of 5000 persons/sq. km while those who dispossessed them roam their land at a density of 6 Jewish Israelis/sq. km. Those Palestinians who managed to remain have fared little better, they are denied the right to their property, their houses are continually demolished, their crops destroyed, and their villages remain unrecognized. Israeli practices have led to the confiscation of most of their lands, leaving them in very poor economic, social and educational conditions. For example, the largest Palestinian town in Beer Sheba, Rahat, is the poorest in Israel. In terms of education, the percentage of those students who complete secondary education is 10 percent, compared to 47 percent for Jewish students and, significantly, 44 percent for Palestinian refugees students. In other words, Palestinian refugees facing severe economic and political hardships, achieve levels of education comparable to Jewish students, while Palestinian citizens of 'democratic Israel' fare far worse.
I have shown above that the main legal pretext for Israel's continuing confiscation of Palestinian land in the Naqab, and the displacement of those Palestinians who have remained upon it, is based on a series of fictions and lies. This legal pretext is nothing more than a flimsy veil for an outright colonial policy of land theft. A reminder of how this policy has continued came on Sunday March 18, 2012. On that day, a Beer Sheba court rejected the case of the Uqbi family for the ownership of their land in the Naqab village of Araqib on which the family has lived for hundreds of years. The Israeli court accepted the testimony of an Israeli government "expert;" a professor of Polish ancestry who does not know Arabic and who testified, contrary to research that he himself had published earlier, that the Palestinians of Araqib were merely shepherds who came from Saudi Arabia with their sheep and then left. By claiming that Palestine is a land without people and that Palestinians do not exist, and by actually expelling Palestinians and confiscating their land, Israel converted this myth into a constant war crime.
1. This article is based on a much more comprehensive report submitted to the International Fact Finding Mission Initiated by the Regional Council of Unrecognized Villages by the author on behalf of the Palestine Land Society. The report is titled "The Denied Inheritance: Palestinian Land Ownership in Beer Sheba," and can be downloaded from: http://www.plands.org/store/pdf/BS%20Cte%20Paper.pdf.
2. Salman Abu Sitta, The Atlas of Palestine 1917- 1966, London: Palestine Land Society, 2010.
3. See for example, By All Means Possible: A Report on the Destruction by the State of Crops of Bedouin Citizens in the Naqab by Aerial Spraying with Chemicals. Nazareth: Arab Association of Human Rights, July 2004, website: http://www.arabhra.org/NaqabReport_English.pdf; Off the Map: Land and Housing Rights Violations in Israel's Unrecognized Bedouin Villages, Human Rights Watch March 2008, Vol. 20, No. 5 (E); Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar, "The Legal Transformation of Ethnic Geography: Israel; Law and the Palestinian Landholder 1948, 1967," International Law and Politics, Vol. 33, pp. 923-1000; Ronen Shamir, "Suspended in Space: Bedouins under the Law of Israel," Law and Society Review, Vol. 30, Number 2 (1996), pp. 231-257; Sabri Jiryis, The Arabs in Israel, New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1976; David Kretzmer, The Legal Status of the Arabs in Israel, Jerusalem: The Institute of Israeli – Arab Studies, 2002 (in Arabic); Hazem Jamjoum, "Al-Naqab: The Ongoing Displacement of Palestine's Southern Bedouin," al-Majdal, Issue 39-40, Winter 2009, pp.27-31.
5. The Recommendation of the Goldberg Commission, Jerusalem, Dec. 2008 (Arabic Translation).
6. From the original Turkish and Arabic: Ottoman Land Law, Beirut: Jesuit Fathers Press, 1873.
7. Land Law, 5729-1969; see also Badil and COHRE, Ruling Palestine: A History of the Legally Sanctioned Jewish-Israeli Seizure of Land and Housing in Palestine, Bethlehem & Geneva: Badil & COHRE, 2005, pp. 46-52.
8. Halil Inalcik with Donald Quataert (ed.), An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, p. 104.
9. Turkish Document on the Registration of Beer Sheba Land to its Holders, IMMS. 122/5229 dated 4 May 1891.
13. See: W. M. Thompson, The Land and the Book. London: Thomas Nelson, 1911, p. 556; Edward Hull, Mount Seir; Sinai and Western Palestine. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1885, p. 139; Victor Guérin, Description de la Palestine. 7 Volumes. Amsterdam: Oriental Press, 1969. See Vol. II, pp. 178-290; Alois Musil, Arabia Petraea. 3 Volumes. Vienna: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1908. Max von Oppenheim, Die Beduinen. Zurich: Georg Olms Verlag, 1983; T.E. Lawrence and C. Leonard Woolley, Wilderness of Zin, London: Stacey International, 2003; The Survey of Western Palestine, 1882-1888, 10 vols. and maps, London: PEF and The Royal Geographical Society, reprinted by Archive Editions with PEF, 1998.
14. Public Records Office CO 733/2/21698/folio 77, 29 March 1921; McDonnell, Law Reports of Palestine, 1920-1923, p. 458.
19. F.M Goadby and Moses Dukhan, The Land Law of Palestine, Tel Aviv, Palestine, 1935, p. 64.
21. Political Diaries of the Arab World – Palestine and Jordan, 1945-1946, Vol. 8, Archive Editions, Reading, UK, 2001, p. 228.
HEBRON – Israeli settlers set fire to an 1,000-year-old olive tree in central Hebron overnight Friday, witnesses said.
Local activist Issa Amro said the group then hurled stones at a community center in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood on Saturday morning.
Settlers tried to remove the Palestinian flag from the 'steadfastness and challenge' center, while Israeli soldiers looked on, he said.
Several days ago a group of Israeli settlers stole the building's flag, which activists had since replaced with a new one, Amro added.
Tel Rumeida lies in the Israeli-military controlled H2 zone of the southern West Bank city, after a 1997 agreement split Hebron into areas of Palestinian and Israeli control. The zone includes the ancient Old City, home of the revered Ibrahimi Mosque — also split into a synagogue referred to as the Tomb of the Patriarchs.


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