Disregarding facts, ignoring reality. Would bother me. Doesn't bother you though. Over and over. There's something about that I admire, that enthusiasm to plow full speed ahead regardless of law, logic, or treaties.

The Israelis, the Palestinians, the UN, the US, and every nation in the region is aware the Israeli settlements are on territory where they have no temporal right to be.

"Without them [the settlements] the IDF [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population." -- Defense Minister Moshe Dayan (quoted in Geoffrey Aronson's Settlements and the Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, Institute for Palestinian Studies.)

Why? Because it is a foreign land to the Israelis. No right to be there. No more right to be there than you have to build a small guest house in your neighbors back yard simply because you have a gun and your neighbor doesn't.

But, there are people who will not believe hard facts simply because they don't want to. Truth, reality, facts, have no meaning if some people just don't want to believe.

Arf