UN Rights Chief Criticizes Israeli Plan To Displace Bedouins, Move Them Into Urban Townships

[Purveyor]

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Source: Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. human rights chief is criticizing an Israeli plan to demolish dozens of Bedouin villages and move up to 40,000 Arab residents to Israeli-built settlements.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says that a bill working its way through the Knesset would wipe out legitimate land claims for the Bedouins in the Negev desert in southern Israel

Israel says the moves are necessary to provide basic services that many nomadic Bedouins lack.

Pillay said Thursday that "As citizens of Israel, the Arab Bedouins are entitled to the same rights to property, housing and public services as any other group in Israel."

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[azurnoir]

1. Urban townships is a really nice way of saying 'reservations'

here is a picture of one of them

[Ash_F]

2. Aren't these Beduins Israeli citizens?

I thought what they were doing to Palestinians wasn't racist because they aren't technically Israeli citizens? How do they justify this?

Perplexing...

[Ash_F]

3. The silence on this question is deafening. /nt