Comments on: Jewish National Fund resumes forestation project in al-Arakib

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:51:51 +0000

Moriel, the Bedouin have taken over quite a bit of land in the northern Negev. The roads running south and east of Beer Sheva are full of Bedouin camps that grow every year on land that was empty 30 years ago.
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Palestinian, the Bedouin are not indigenous to Israel. Each tribe has a history of migration from somewhere else within the past 200 years.

By: Matthew Graber

Matthew Graber — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:28:39 +0000

And the JNF plans to bring 600,000 Jews to the Negev by 2020: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Z3ggWjyas&feature=player_embedded.

Not that that has any influence on the legality of the Bedouins who live there now.

By: Weindeb

Weindeb — Tue, 08 May 2012 08:35:17 +0000

And so Israel once again commits its almost daily Et cetera in fulfilling its status as a racist, land-grabbing, apartheidt society, in which legal manipulations serve as cosmetics disguising the rot, but not quite.

By: Moriel Rothman

Moriel Rothman — Tue, 08 May 2012 07:31:57 +0000

Rodrigo, your use of the words “exploiting” and “take over” indicate that you’ve been reading your governmentally approved Hasbara, but be careful about throwing those terms around. Any idea how much of the land in the Negev the Bedouins (30% of the Negev’s population) have succeeded in “taking over?” Last figure I heard was somewhere between 5 and 6%. To be fair, though, those poor saplings that the JNF is planting over what used to be a village are just trying to right the historical injustice of years past wherein governments had the chutzpah to think that non-Jewish citizens of Israel might be more important than trees.

By: Palestinian

Palestinian — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:56:54 +0000

Rodrigo , law ? take over ? I am not sure who came from Russia and Poland to steal and kill ,those bedouins are the indigenous population ,Israelis are thieves with “laws” that discriminate against them ,Israelis steal land from the Palestinians and give it to illegal immigrants from moon riding their Alyiah black horses .

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:59:08 +0000

The rule of law applies to everyone in Israel, not just the Jews. The Bedouin have for years exploited the lack of involvement by the Israeli government to take over land and then claim them retroactively as their own. 15 years ago they built homes here without permission and with no deeds to the land, now they claim that the land is in their souls. This is nonsense regardless of how much noble savages imagery the left tries to dress this up in.

By: sh

sh — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:51:49 +0000

The JNF we innocently collected money for as children because they planted trees to make the Israel beautiful for its citizens has demolished Al-Araqib about forty times over past couple of years in order to be able to plant a forest for American Evangelical God-TV. To this end, it needs to throw Israeli citizens off their land. But that’s ok, they’re not Jewish. But hey, neither is God-TV and they’re not even citizens.

By: Gadi Algazi

Gadi Algazi — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:36:05 +0000

Some comments and photos on today’s events in al-Arakib:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.303721053039151.67715.164673906943867&type=1

By: Shlomi

Shlomi — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:55:17 +0000

Blatant lie! The court has already spoken. Nothing is disputed. The Bedouins couldn’t prove their ownership, and the court ruled that they lied in court.

JNF have legal advisers, and they didn’t start planting trees until the court made it’s ruling.