Its Trail of Tears again which was the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans. In 2013, history is repeating itself in Israel, with the aid of US tax dollars. Last Monday, the Israeli Knesset approved the first reading of the Prawer Plan - the first legislative step toward removing 40,000 indigenous Bedouin people from their ancestral homeland in the Negev/al-Naqab. The Prawer Plan essentially provides government approval for the Jewish National Fund’s $4 billion "Blueprint Negev" to transform the Negev/al-Naqab into a majority-Jewish area, despite the centuries that Bedouin people have been living there. Unlike Palestinians in the West Bank or Gaza, the Bedouin are citizens of the State of Israel. However, they are cut off from basic services, denied quality education, and restricted in the purchase of land for personal or commercial use. Thousands of Bedouin have already been transferred, similarly to other Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line whose villages have been destroyed. This is a direct continuation of the ongoing Nakba which began in 1947.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:42:55 +0000
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