Thousands of Bedouins to be removed from West Bank lands slated for Jewish apartments, farms

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/06/thousands-bedouins-apartments.html

Quietly, without demonstrations or consulting the stakeholders, the Civil Administration is cooking up a plan to relocate West Bank Bedouin into crowded new townships — What does this remind you of? Thousands of people are forced, at gunpoint, to leave their homes. They are herded together and the people with the guns force them to live together, at a level of crowding that conflicts with their way of life and of earning a living. It doesn’t really matter what this reminds us of. The Civil Administration in the West Bank, part of the executive branch of the Israeli government, is diligently working on wreaking another calamity on thousands of people. For us that’s small change, right?

A slight shudder of the printer as it ejects the pages with the orders. An appointed body, not one that is elected by those whose fates are in its hands, composed of civil employees, settlers and active or retired military personnel, is preparing another draconian version of the so-called Prawer plan. The original plan was for the forcible relocation of Bedouin in the Negev, while the new one targets Bedouin in the West Bank. The Civil Administration doesn’t ask them what they want, listen to them or consider their history or future.

The areas that will be cleared will be used to build thousands of apartments for Jews and also, presumably, parks as well as single-family farms (the latter, known as “lone farms,” for Jews only). How simple. How easy. The target this time is Bedouin communities between Jerusalem and Jericho and north of Jericho, comprising 15,000 to 20,000 people all together.

We are used to seeing Bedouin in tents and tin shacks along the new highways, or searching for grass to pasture their flocks, on bits of land between expanding settlements and military bases. Many think their way of life is primitive, hard and pointless. That attitude is used to justify the mass expulsion-concentration now being drafted by the Civil Administration, that messenger of modernity and progress.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.596569

How convenient for the hasbaristas. Keep on chanting that Israel is not an apartheid state as they practice "Apartness" in reality, and when this is pointed out they can always cry that everybody is an anti-Semite.

[newfie11]

1. This is wrong!

How will the Bedouin survive? Confiscating the land they live on and run their animals on to build apartments is just plain wrong!!!

[DetlefK]

2. Thou shalt not call this "expropriation", "ghettos" and "racism".

If you do, you are critical of the state Israel. And if you are critical of the state Israel, you are an anti-semite.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Yep.

And such apartheid has been going on for decades now.
Not to mention the high cement walls that are being built
and the attempted erasing of people in Gaza.
which our country quietly condones.

Much much much bad karma heaping up over this shameful ehavior.

[DetlefK]

5. Tiananmen.

The communist party of the PRC wants the Tiananmen-square massacre to be forgotten. They refuse to face responsibility and admit wrongdoing. They know it was wrong, a horrible over-reaction ordered by a paranoid old ruler, but they can't admit it for fear of loosing face (and the renewed calls for more democracy this would create) and just want the topic to go away and die already.

I predict that Israel will treat this episode of history exactly the same. They are stealing land and evicting people at gunpoint. 30 years from now, they will pretend that this never happened. A future bought and paid for with pain, suffering and blood.

[Shaktimaan]

7. That's really just absurd.

While I'll allow that the complexity of this conflict allows for multiple and at times conflicting narratives there's just no honest interpretation of the situation in Gaza that could be reasonably interpreters as Israel attempting to erase the gazan people.

[Divernan]

3. You know the wisdom that abused children become abusers themselves?

In answer to your question, "what does this remind you of?"

[King_David]

6. Who was abused in your scenario ?

The Jews ?