could actually Abdallah Abu Mdagim pull away easily. He could buy a house, let in nearby Ashdod on Israel's Mediterranean coast, with his wife and ten children of the desert behind. His black Mercedes S-Class is blankgewienert in the dust beside the poor hut cobbled together out of boards and plastic sheeting. The car failed after judging it not the money. But Abdallah Abu Mdagim not want to leave his village. "This is my country," says the 41-year-old Bedouin, with aviator sunglasses and bushy mustache, which gives him almost to his ears. He would not be distributed, no matter what. The phrase sounds like an empty threat, given the large pile of rubble and cement chunks left over from his house has stopped.
end of June, the Israeli Land Authority with 1,300 police officers, truck be moved full of volunteers from the settler movement and bulldozers had Abu Mdagims razed village had 45 houses made of cement and steel that once stood here, turned into rubble and 850 olive and eucalyptus trees uprooted.
Thereafter, the police returned four more times to destroy the tents erected by the inhabitants of al-Araqib to protect against the sun. But the events of recent weeks are only the escalation of a simmering dispute for years over who owns the land, live on the the 35 Bedouin families.
Al-Araqib is one not of 45 unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel's Negev Desert. Until the founding of the State of Israel, the Bedouins are the only inhabitants of the region. Under the British, 98 percent of the area were considered Bedouin land.
During the War of Independence in 1948 much of the indigenous population fled to neighboring countries, Egypt, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Today the remaining 160,000 become sedentary descendants of the former nomadic tribes in a triangle, "Seyag", between Beer Sheva, Dimona and Arad in the northern Negev.
But even here, the Israeli authorities do not have all the Bedouins. The state needs the land, primarily for the Jewish population. The first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion spoke of "make the desert bloom." But the Zionist vision to settle in the Holy Land and to make the barren land under cultivation, extends back to the first Jewish pioneers in the late 19th Century into what was then Palestine came.
Since the state was founded, the population of this small country in the Middle East has increased tenfold. Last year alone, came according to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics 14 500 new Jewish immigrants to Israel. The north and the center of the country are densely populated. The only way to spread further lies to the south, in the desert, which represents more than half of the territory.
2006, the then government under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, therefore, the development plan "Negev 2015", according to the growing population in the desert by 70 percent. 17 million shekels, the equivalent of 3.5 million euros invested, the government in the ten-year plan to establish new villages. By the year 2015, 900,000 people live in the Negev.
refuses the same time, the Israeli Land Authority, the traditional customary law of the Bedouin recognize. The land had been confiscated in the 1950s as state land not cultivated, they say. The burden of proof in court is among the Bedouins. In the 1960s and 1970s, seven cities, such as the obvious retort Rahat were built from the ground. Desolate places with shabby apartment blocks, with no sidewalks, hardly any infrastructure and jobs. There are the Bedouins moving to the will of the Israeli authorities.
As in the Third World
About half of the former nomads now lives in the satellite towns, call the critics according to the South African apartheid system "townships". They all belong of the poorest communities of Israel. Villages such as al-Araqib allow the State to any running water or electricity. Access roads do not exist, let alone shops, a post office, schools, garbage disposal or a hospital.
"Health care in the Bedouin villages in the developing world," said Salah Haj Yahya, doctors of Physicians for Human Rights. The NGO has set up this afternoon in al-Araqib their mobile clinic. In the large hut in the village square are veiled women with their children to be examined free of charge from the doctors. "Without running water and sewage system, the hygiene conditions are very bad," continues the doctor continued. "Many of the children have skin diseases and suffer from diarrhea."
adds to the mental stress caused by the repeated destruction of the houses. "The problem is not the houses," said Mahmoud Said. The trauma therapist has spent the whole morning with the older children of the village. "Toys, photos, exercise books, one on the psychologist," that the bulldozers have destroyed all the houses together. "
But the Israeli Land Authority is in the right. "The tribe in 1998 for the first time entered illegally in the area and has built without permission on Israeli state land," said spokeswoman Ortal Tsabar. 2000 obtained the authority of an interim Available, which prohibits the families, the land they call their own to enter. The authority had offered the Bedouin to lease the land. But the families had refused.
2003, the evacuation order came. Since then, the Bedouins have in several instances has appealed against the expulsion, so far without success. Both the Supreme Court and the district court in Beer Sheva came to the verdict, the plaintiffs could not prove unequivocally that the land belonged to them. A final decision on appeal is still pending. The bulldozers came anyway.
Abu Mdagim can pick up the metal fasteners of his brown leather suitcase and documents submitted in transparencies on the sandy ground. These papers are all that he has put forward against the Israeli authorities. The oldest dates from 1929. Abu Mdagim points to the thumb print, with his grandfather under the Ottoman rule of his right to the land with black ink sealed. The most recent document is from 1972. The Israeli Land Authority registered at that time the 32.5 hectares, the Abu Mdagim the north of the Negev desert will lay claim as his property. But that seems no longer to apply.
"Behind all this is a clear ideology," said Wasim Abbas, a member of Physicians for Human Rights, who has many years to the needs of the Bedouin care. Under Prime Minister Olmert Ehut it had looked like, as if the Bedouin issue to be resolved. A committee headed by former President of the Supreme Court, Eliezer Goldberg, had the government in 2008 recommended in a report to recognize the villages of the former nomads and to provide them with the necessary infrastructure.
But the new government of Benjamin Netanyahu wants to know nothing of these proposals. "Several right-wing members of the government, the Arab Bedouins consider as a demographic threat," said Abbas. Why would you drive out the indigenous inhabitants of the desert with all the resources of their country, then to the Jewish Population in which to settle.
And indeed: Not far from the Bedouin village of al-Araqib, the two neighboring Jewish towns Lehavim and Omer. As two of the wealthiest communities in the country they belong to the showpiece of the Israeli Negev strategy. Instead of corrugated iron huts line the single-family homes with lush gardens and palms together. This open injustice Abu Mdagim infuriates.
"Where is the respect for human rights, respect for the rights of minorities has remained?", He exclaims, shaking his finger in the desert wind. He knew that not all Jews are like that, he continues. The fault is the government. "What is democracy?" he asks. "Apparently, only for certain people," he says. will not give up Abu Mdagim anyway. The only way to get rid of him and his family had to deportation. "I stand by my people."
Source: alykum TAZ
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