re desertification of the negev center for policy research cpr igc apc org writes here you give positive accurate facts about what happened to the beduins and the land after the creation of the state of israel percent of the negev bedouin were expelled to the sinai or to southern jordan the who were allowed to remain were confined to a territory of hectares in a region were annual mean precipiation was mm a quantity low enough to ensure a crop failure two years out of three the rare water wells in the south and central negev spring of life in the desert were cemented to prevent bedouin shepherds from roaming a few bedouin shepherds were allowed to stay in the central negev but after when the sinai was returned to egypt these bedouin were also eliminated at the same time strong pressure was applied on the bedouin to abandon cultivation of their fields in order that the land could be transferred to the army and now you say noone knows anything about what happened there no reliable statistics exist concerning the amount of land held today by negev bedouin it is a known fact that a large part of the hectares they cultivated in the s has been seized by the israeli authorities indeed most of the bedouin are now confined to seven development towns or sowetos established for them the rest of the article is available from elias davidsson email elias ismennt is so what you basically say is that we know for sure that nothing good happens there now we know for sure that the beduins prospered before the jews arrived and that they were driven away by the jews noone on earth knows about what the jews did there is that what you said could you proove any of the nonsense you wrote btw try asking beduins in sinai how they mis the israelis not to mention that there are enough valotaring beduins in the idf to have at least one full brigade of them amos shapira jumper extraordinaire it is true that power corrupts c s system group hebrew university but absolute power is better jerusalem israel amoss cs huji ac il the demon to his son
