This diary is crossposted from Daily Kos by permission of yeela, its author. Yeela works with Bedouin people in the Negev desert of Israel. It was published on Wednesday, April 04, 2007.
To find out what is happening to the Bedouin people of Israel, watch the video from Google down below.
This documentary tells you about what is happening to them. It has been going on for a long time. The Israel government wants the Bedouin to leave their villages and lands and way of life. Why? Just to make room for Jewish settlers to move in and take their lands and build their own towns in place of the Bedouin. The Bedouin are Arab. Some have been forced to move into Bedouin only towns. The towns are poor and most of the people there give up their way of life and work as cheap labor. Those who refuse to move stay in “unrecognized” villages. The government acts like they don’t exist. They go without water, schools, clinics, and basic services. Often their homes are bulldozed.
This is all told in the video.
“The Unrecognized is a short documentary which highlights the plight of Palestinian Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel living in the Naqab (Negev) desert, many of whom were forced off their lands following the establishment of the state in 1948. Approximately 70,000 now live in the poverty of `unrecognized villages’, where they are denied essential public services and face fundamental human rights violations due to institutionalized discrimination.”
http://www.theunrecognized.org/
Please click and watch at Google. It is only 20 minutes.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8925884404226108533&q=unrecognized&hl=en
Thank you.
