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Showing Original Post only (View all)Cabinet OK's Razing Bedouin Towns To Build Jewish Settlement In Their Place [View all]
After being expelled and relocated in the 1950s, the residents of Umm al-Hiran are about to lose their homes once again this time to make way for a Jewish national-religious settlement.The Israeli government on Sunday made one of its most outrageous decisions in recent years (and there is no shortage of those, as you know). The cabinet held a special session in Sde Boker the Kibbutz in which David Ben-Gurion is buried to approve plans to build a new Jewish town (along with several others all for Jews) in the northeast region of the Negev desert.
The symbolism of meeting at Sde Boker is clear: Ben-Gurion believed that the Negev is Zionisms final frontier, and all Jewish pioneering effort should take place there.
There is no better example of how Zionism as a state ideology represents, in practice, the ongoing dispossession of Palestinians. Two Bedouin-Palestinian villages, Umm al-Hiran and Atir (where members of the Al-Qiaan tribe live), are the location where the kibbutz is planned.
Last year, Lia Tarachansky of the Real News produced a comprehensive video report about Umm al-Hiran and the Israeli governments plans for it:
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http://972mag.com/government-to-confirm-destruction-of-bedouin-village-jewish-town-will-be-built-on-site/81638/
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Cabinet OK's Razing Bedouin Towns To Build Jewish Settlement In Their Place [View all]
Purveyor
Nov 2013
OP
Well, you "enters them" (sic) as an IDF guy bent on enforcing the dispossession of the Bedouin,
delrem
Nov 2013
#16
I'm sure the demons in your own head help you "guess", pelsar. Why would I debate with that? cya
delrem
Nov 2013
#35
really is that what I said is that simply what you need to claim at the moment?
azurnoir
Nov 2013
#38
This subthread started because you did not like my posting about the JNF and it's role in the Prawer
azurnoir
Nov 2013
#46
I didn't "mention" any such thing, pelsar. That is the devil in your head speaking.
delrem
Nov 2013
#57
i have answered you don't like the answer is you claim none was made been doing this same dance for
azurnoir
Nov 2013
#60