Border Police and Green Patrol destroy 52 homes in the Negev by Arab Association for Human Rights 1:46am Thu May 30 '02 address: Arab Association for Human Rights phone: 04-6561923 hra1@arabhra.org Yesterday morning the authorities destroyed 52 homes - eradicating all the tents and temporary structures of the unrecognized village of al-‘Araqib, in which the al-Turi and al-‘Uqbi tribes were living just south of Rahat in the Negev. print article Arab Association for Human Rights - Press Release - 29th May 2002 Border Police and Green Patrol destroy 52 homes in the Negev Yesterday morning the authorities destroyed 52 homes - eradicating all the tents and temporary structures of the unrecognized village of al-‘Araqib, in which the al-Turi and al-‘Uqbi tribes were living just south of Rahat in the Negev.[1] The Green Patrol, an environmental paramilitary unit created by Ariel Sharon for Negev security, arrived armed with truncheons and tear gas at seven o’clock in the morning under the close supervision of the Border Police and circling aeroplanes. First blocking all entrances to the village, they found mostly women and children present. Eleven people were arrested to for resisting the demolitions and obstructing the police, of whom seven have been released on the condition of not returning to the area for 7 days, and 3 will remain in prison until tomorrow.[2] This is the second time in a month that the village has been razed, and three months ago the crops of the people of al-’Araqib were sprayed with pesticide from the air, in order to render the land un-farmable. The al-Turi tribe were moved from their land in 1956, and concentrated in Rahat as part of the strategy of sedentarisation and ‘modernisation’ of the Bedouin under the military government of that time. Their return was prohibited, but the failure of the new suburbs of Rahat which then Interior Minister Ariel Sharon created, but which did not receive further planning permission, have led them to that return. Rahat was 201st out of 201 recognised localities in Israel in the 1995/6 National Insurance Institute report on prosperity, and has stayed near the bottom ever since. The “real rate [of unemployment] is close…to 60%”[3]. “We should transform the Bedouin into an urban proletariat...a radical move which means the Bedouin would not live on his lands with his herds, but would become an urban person who comes home in the afternoon and puts his slippers on...The children would go to school with their hair properly combed. This would be a revolution, but it may be fixed in two generations. Without coercion but with government direction... ...this phenomenon of the Bedouins will disappear.”[4] Moshe Dayan Contacts for further information: Adalah the legal centre for minority rights in Israel. Negev Office 28 Reger Ave Room 35 Beer Sheva Tel: 08-665-0740 Fax: 08-665-0853 http://www.adalah.org/ Regional Council for the Unrecognised Villages in the Negev Kayran Haysud 29/29 PO Box 10002 Beersheva Phone: 08 628 3043 Fax: 08 6283315 The Association for Support and Defence of Bedouin Rights in Israel PO. Box 5212  Beersheva Tel: 08 623 0289 The Association of Forty Ein Hod, near Nir Etzion,30808 Tel: 04 - 836 2381, 836 2382 Fax: 04 - 836 2379 http://www.assoc40.org/ [1] Report in al-Ittihad 29th May 2002, page 2. [2] Details from Salem Abu-Medeghem of Adalah. [3] Ha’aretz News Features, English edition, March 6th 2002, page 4. [4] Moshe Dayan, Ha’aretz interview 31/7/63; cited in Ronen Shamir, “Suspended in Space: Bedouins Under the Law of Israel”, Law - Society Review, vol 30, no. 2 (1996) p.231 www.arabhra.org/ add your comments Source file

This should teach You'll a lesson by Danie'l Keleti 3:57pm Thu May 30 '02 phone: 08-9466645 ostland@netvision.net.il print comment All of You Green fellows, who supported the creation of the fascist monstrocity named "the green police"... Anarchy stop fascism!! add your comments