Think Isreal is Done Screwing With Arabs? Think Again. Now it's the Bedouins' Turn, and Beyond That Israel Seeks to Force Out All Arabs to Shrunken Palestinian Lands

2007 Map of Israel, Gaza, West Bank

Notice that the land controlled by Palestinians in the West Bank (green area) has shrunk severely from the expected moth wing shape bordering the valuable water of the Jordan River and the vital markets of Jordan. 

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And, along with other Arabs within Israel, the Bedouins are not provided shelters from the missiles, but the patient Bedouins have been lobbing no missiles, themselves.

In fact, a commission just recently recommended Legalizing Bedouin towns and only relocating those it was impossible to legalize.  

Excerpt Haaretz report "Israeli official proposes 'disengaging' illegal Bedouin homes ":

The Goldberg Committee, appointed by the Interior Ministry to discuss land issues related to the Bedouin, recommended last month that the government recognizes illegal Bedouin villages and offers residents of villages that cannot be recognized to move elsewhere.

Apparently the PM didn't like that idea though, so he found someone to sign off on the idea that they can pcik up bedouin communities and toss them where ever they want.

More from the same Haaretz report:

A government employee being considered to head an inter-ministerial team to deal with issues of Bedouin settlement in the Negev has recommended implementing similar principles to those used in the 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip. "If the government evacuated 8,000 citizens living in legally authorized buildings, it can also evacuate those living in illegal buildings," wrote Ehud Prawer, the head of policy planning in the Prime Minister's Office, who is under review for leading the implementation of the Goldberg report on Bedouin land claims. 

 PM Olmert likes this idea so well that he's already signed onto it:

The proposal, which has been signed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Housing Minister Ze'ev Boim, asks the team to reach its recommendations within six months.

Interesting that the Israelis call the settlements of the Bedouins "illegal" when they used to be the only residents (in a roving kind of way) of the Negev.  If natural law were followed then they would be the owners of the entire Southern Israel desert.  So, um, who, in fact are the squatters, my friend?

And, in fact, would any other land offered the former nomads actually be theirs to keep seeing that even Tzipi Livni has called for forcing Arabs out of Israel if they want full rights once a two state solution is created according to a report in Haaretz published in December 2008:

Excerpt "Livni: National aspirations of Israel's Arabs can be met by Palestinian homeland ":

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Thursday that the creation of a Palestinian state would serve as a solution to national aspirations of Israel's Arab citizens.

"Once a Palestinian state is established, I can come to the Palestinian citizens, whom we call Israeli Arabs, and say to them 'you are citizens with equal rights, but the national solution for you is elsewhere,'" Livni was quoted by Army Radio as saying to students at a Tel Aviv high school. 

Except those equal rights, if the 'Arabs' stay within whatever borders Israel manages to grab don't include being equal partners within the political parties of their choice.   See Haaretz report "Israel bans Arab parties from running in upcoming elections". There are other rights that Jewish Israelis get after they serve their initial stint in the military, from which I hear, those of Arab descent are banned

Last month, Livni infuriated Israeli Arab lawmakers when she said: It must be clear to everyone that the State of Israel is a national homeland for the Jewish people."

At the time, Livni added that the national demands of Israeli Arabs should end the moment a Palestinian state is established.

BTW, do you still think that the Israeli Arabs would have all that expansive 'West Bank' to load their fellow 'Arabs' into?  Think again.  See graphic at top of post. 

Also see graphic from Global policy.org of "Projected West Bank Partition 2008 " to see, not only settlers, but the Israeli military heavily occupying the valuable land near the Jordan.  (This is another fact that makes me think that there will be no three state solution to the Palestinian problem.  How do you connect West Bank to the nation of Jordan when Israeli settlers and military occupy the portion nearest to the state which is supposed to swallow up the eastern portion of the Palestinian homeland.

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