by STEPHEN LENDMAN
“Bedouin Arab citizens are victimized like Israeli Arabs and Occupied Palestinians.”
In October, the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, together with nine other human rights organizations, addressed a position paper on “The unconstitutionality of the state’s policy of demolishing Arab Bedouin unrecognized villages in the Negev” to three Israeli officials:
— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
— Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, and
— Minister of Justice Yaakov Neeman.
Citing the illegality of home demolitions, in this case of Arab Israeli citizens, they urged halting them immediately and finding a durable solution for unrecognized village residents. In Salim Abu- Medeghem v. The Israel Land Administration (April 14, 2007), Israel’s High Court proposed replacing demolitions with solutions based on dialogue, Justice Arbel ruling:
“….the difficult reality the Bedouin population faces in the State of Israel requires a systemic, complete and comprehensive solution, and the sooner the better…The time has come to formulate and implement a truly comprehensive solution to this problem.”
It explained that Israeli Arabs live mainly in all-Arab towns and villages in three heartlands – the Galilee in the north; what’s called the “Little Triangle” in the center along the Israeli side of the Green Line; and the Negev in the south.
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