Uprooting the Bedouins of Negev in a Quasi-Police State (with Cheerleaders)……….
“Around 300 Bedouins living in Israel's Negev desert were left homeless on Tuesday after hundreds of police raided their village and demolished their homes, rights groups said. Israeli rights activists who tried to prevent the operation said a huge number of police swooped on the village of Al-Araqib shortly before dawn in scores of vehicles and at least 12 buses. "More than 1,500 police arrived at the village at around sunrise -- they came in dozens of vehicles and began destroying the structures there," said Chaya Noach, head of Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality, a group which fights to protect the rights of the 160,000 Bedouin living in the Negev……”
“Witnesses told CNN that the Israeli forces arrived at the village accompanied by busloads of civilians who cheered as the dwellings were demolished. They said armed police deployed with tear gas, water cannon, two helicopters and bulldozers…..”
These are native Bedouins of the Negev, otherwise they wouldn't even be allowed to exist in the area in this quasi-police state that Israel has become. Not clear what the busloads of cheering civilians were about, maybe the usual cheerleaders. There have been other incidents in recent months of Bedouins being attacked by settlers and in at least one case being shot by soldiers. These are people who do not express political views and only want to be left alone in their desert- sort of like the Apache or the Comanche did in the American Southwest with more vigor and more “robust advocacy”.
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