"It is hard to cast the Bedouin...as a security threat...

Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing: 36,000 Bedouin about to be expelled from their homes, even though they are Israeli citizens.. One of their towns in the Negev - Al Araqib - has now been destroyed 160 times during the last decade in an effort to force them to leave. Israel planted huge stretches of water-hungry fast-growing eucalyptus trees in the desert to claim ownership of their grazing land.

Israel prepares to turn Bedouin citizens into refugees in their own country

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