Negev Bedouin protest home demolitions, crop destruction

[Aidoneus]

Negev Bedouin protest home demolitions, crop destruction
By Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondent

Dozens of Bedouin residents of unrecognized villages in the Negev Desert demonstrated in Be'er Sheva on Sunday morning against the Interior Ministry's and Israel Lands Administration's policies of home demolitions and crop destruction in their villages.

The protest was held opposite the Interior Ministry's Be'er Sheva offices.

Last week, the ILA's crop-duster planes again sprayed wheat fields planted by the Bedouin citizens, killing the crops.

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The demonstrators carried signs reading "The destruction of croplands is terror" and "The state is using weapons of mass destruction against the Bedouins."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=394413&

[Scurrilous]

1. Israelis kill crops to oust Bedouin

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/18FB7D67-7F52-44E9-8C5F-0E2AB9FE7799.htm

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"Four crop-spraying planes circling overhead have brought silent death to the fields of wheat and barley that Shaikh Salih Abu Darim and his Bedouin tribe will need to feed themselves and their goats and sheep for the year.

The Araqib tribe have farmed the land close to the city of Beer Sheva in southern Israel for generations. But in the past year the Israeli government has declared war on them and some 70,000 other Bedouin living in 45 communities it refuses to recognise in the Negev (al-Naqab).

On 15 January the authorities stepped up the pressure on the Araqib to leave by spraying powerful herbicides on their crops, making the young shoots shrivel and die in the following weeks."

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"Over the past 12 months, there has also been a wave of house demolitions, making nearly 2000 Bedouin homeless. At least three mosques have also been destroyed. Another 10,000 structures are under threat of demolition."

[sushi]

2. I wonder how it feels

to destroy other people's lives. How do they sleep at night.

[dArKeR]

3. I read somewhere that criminals don't have a conscience

If the beduin can be forced out of their villages, their place will be taken by 14 exclusive Jewish settlements and dozens more private farmsteads, modelled on Sharon's own huge agricultural estate in the Negev, known as Sycamore Ranch

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4. "all in the name of liberty"

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