Where is the Bedouin Intifada?

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6. The article is a joke. Did you catch the part where the writer condemns Israeli...

...expansion both within and beyond the 1967 lines?

Think about what that means for second.

It's legitimate to call into question Israeli expansion into the territories beyond the '67 lines. But within? Israel cannot "expand" within their own borders? Is this writer fucking serious?

FFS, she condemns all-Jewish settlements - these would be settlements within Israel - that will be built in the Negev. So Jews living both within and outside the green line are settlers?



That's also a joke due to the fact that any Israeli can live in the Negev or anywhere else in Israel they choose to live - Jewish or not - by law. Here's that stupidity in the article...

As Israel steps up its expansionist policies both inside and outside the Green Line, the Bedouin community has come under particularly intense pressure.

Inside Israel, the state seeks to Judaize the Negev (Naqab) desert. This “development” includes last year’s Prawer plan, which recommends that Israel relocate between 30,000 and 40,000 Bedouin citizens, ripping them from their villages and sticking them in impoverished townships, to clear the area for Jewish-only settlements.

Who says that only Jews will live there and that this is a racial issue? Do you realize there are many Arabs in the Israeli government? There's nothing stopping other Israeli bedouins or any other Israeli Arabs from moving into those areas with - OMG - the Jews. Housing costs in the Negev will surely be cheaper than up north in Israel where the cost is astronomical. I'd be shocked if the non-Jews of Israel don't take advantage of moving down south where housing costs are better.

Finally, she makes the idiotic argument that anyone in Israel expecting Bedouins to start a bloody Intifada is a racist/colonialist, etc. But she and her other anti-Israel comrades always tell us that bloody terror from Palestinians is natural and to be expected due to Israeli policies. She and her like minded mental midgets can't have it both ways.