Negev Bedouin Palestinians are turning to the United Nations to help prevent Israel from approving the forcible eviction, home demolition, and relocation of between 20,000 and 30,000 residents of territory unrecognized by Israel as Palestinian.
On the instructions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, National Security Advisor Yaakov Amidror recently introduced changes to existing plans to remove these Palestinians from their communities, which have been publicly opposed by the Bedouin and by rights activists.
These are the same groups that Israel recently sued for over $500,000, the claimed costs of demolishing their village each time the Bedouin rebuilt it. Israeli authorities had destroyed, and the Bedouin had rebuilt, the homes in al-Araqib more than 20 times.
Awad Abu Farih, a leading activist representing the Bedouin villages, announced a demonstration planned for September 18 near the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. Part of the plan is to ask UN institutions to recognize the rights of the Bedouin as an indigenous people, using a recent report by the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Prof. James Anaya, which criticized the Israeli government’s refusal to recognize the Bedouin land.
People in the world read articles like this one; at the same time the US is trying to bribe the Palestinians to not request UN recognition of a Palestinian state in exchange for a new peace process. Is there anyone in the world who actually takes the US seriously? They are so embarrasing. Even if there were people in our government nieve enough to actually believe such nonsense, Israel would once again publically humiliate them and renounce any such peace efforts. Israel does not want to stop grabbing Palestinian land.
There is an error in the article.
Quote: "[…] home demolition, and relocation of between 20,000 and 30,000 residents of territory unrecognized by Israel as Palestinian."
The term "unrecognized" in the context of Palestinian locales in Israel refers to Israel's refusal to recognize those locales as legitimate and legal.
Within Israel proper, that is to say inside the Green Line, Israel does not recognize any land, territory or people as "Palestinian". The only territory the Israeli government has been willing to describe as Palestinian is whatever remains of the occupied West Bank.
An important piece of information that needs to be added to the article is that the Palestinians in the village of al-Araqib are Israeli citizens, as are the rest of the Palestinians in the Negev.