By Shahar Ilan, Haaretz Correspondent: Barak slams push to cut defense budget for 2009
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Title:Dagma, Arie, Esther - Consider Rent
Name:Mark of Lewiston
City: LewistonState: USA
In the case of the settlement of Homesh and the legal aftermath, it might be wise to start budgeting rent as part of the defense budget. The AG`s office thinks they have a losing case and the back rent is building. For more see:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/944086.html

Also, it might be wise to consider that according to your government`s own records, a third of all the West Bank settlements came into existence on land requisitioned and obtained in the same manner as Homesh.

That`s not just Olmert, but every PM preceding him back to 1967.