This Prawer-Begin Plan, that prompted the "Day of Rage" protesting in several cities today, what is it?
What is it? Is it "the largest confiscation of Palestine-owned land since the 1950s," as one critic calls it?
Or, is it a way to help the southern part of Israel develop, despite the fact the Bedouins there are squatting on government land? The protesting Bedouins respond that they have been living on the site since before the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
Part of the plan calls for Jewish settlements in the area. I am not opposed to that, in spirit. If, though, the Bedouins have to be moved off land they occupied before Israel became a state in order to make room for the Jews, that might possibly be wrong.
It is also fair to wonder if the Bedouins are claiming to have occupied the property before 1948, while in actuality they came to live on the land parcels after the Jewish state was created, and after the Jewish state claimed the land.
Also to be considered, is that 93 percent of all land in Israel is owned by the state. Have Jews been treated the same as are these Bedouins in the Negev Desert area? Have any Jews been forced to move from one property to another? If this is normal treatment of all people in Israel, then perhaps it is acceptable treatment of the Bedouins, as well.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25170855
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/174646#.UprhZY2siSo
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