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Anti-Bedouin Unit Becomes Operational
I against my brother, my brothers and I against my cousins, then my cousins and I against strangers
Bedouin Proverb
In the last week of October 2013, Israel Police announced that the core of its Yoav Unit, created in April 2012, had become operational with 110 fighters fully trained and equipped by the army. Another 250 men will soon start the training. Following the approval of the Prawer Law,+ which attempts to expel Bedouins from their homes, on June 24, 2013, Israel is fighting its own citizens, Bedouins++ living in the Negev Desert. The Yoav Unit was set to expel them from their ancestral homes.
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Unforgettable images from the legislation of the Prawer Law, showed Palestinian Members of the Knesset destroying the paper the law was printed on while claiming that it is a racist law. “It is an Arab-Law,” MK Tibi said while spilling water on it. “It is a Racist-Law,” MK Barake said in tears. MK Afu Agbaria said nothing while ripping the illegitimate law.
It is impossible to find faults in their reasoning while considering another unofficial settlement in the Negev, Ariel Sharon’s Havat HaShikmim, the Sycamore Farm, near Kibbutz Ruhama. Private farms in Israel are an oddity. In 1972, Major General Ariel Sharon, Commander of the Southern Command, decided to purchase the farm which had been abandoned since 1954, with a loan he received from an American Jew.
The State allowed his unusual settlement, but the farm remained defined as “yeshuv lo mukar,” “unknown settlement,” a category it shares with the Bedouin settlements about to be evacuated. Yet, there is no chance that Sharon’s farm will be evacuated; hence, the Prawer Law is racist.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2013/10/anti-bedouin-unit-becomes-operational/
