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In reply to the discussion: The blood libel film [View all]shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)45. The Negev settlements will be covered by admissions committees...
under the Admissions Committees Law.
From 2011, that law allows villages to adapt "selection committees" which can reject applications for residency based on criteria including "social unsuitability".
The law, passed last March, allows the use of acceptance committees "to bar residents who do not suit the lifestyle and social fabric of the community" only in communities in the Galilee and the Negev that have fewer than 400 families.
According to Adalah attorney Suhad Bishara, this position allows screening committees at 475 communities in the north and south, which comprise 46 percent of all the towns and cities in Israel and 65 percent of its communal and agricultural settlements.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-ag-defends-controversial-law-on-admissions-panels-1.409233
You can bet your bottom dollar that "social unsuitability" includes being "not Arab" and definitely "not Bedouin".
Additionally, even American Jewish leaders have occasionally been honest when speaking about the real objectives of settlement in the Negev:-
Its a dream, it was David Ben Gurions dream, its been a dream of many, many people, and I think the time is now. If the time is not now, we will lose, we will lose the Negev, we will lose our chance. We would lose it not only to the Bedouins, but we would lose it to people who would normally move here from the Diaspora, who would decide not to move here.
http://www.herzliyaconference.org/eng/?CategoryID=202&ArticleID=1339
Nothing racist about that of course. I am sure that good-mannered Americans speak about "losing" Detroit or Philadelphia to the Blacks all the time.
And of course, if our Kahanist friend sees nothing racist in it (and why would she?) then whats not to love?
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Yemini is right when he says, it is difficult to believe that RHR would produce a blood libel..they
Jefferson23
Nov 2013
#1
Great links, thanks. It is sad to me because due to their support, the odds are against the
Jefferson23
Dec 2013
#15
You were wrong, weren't you? It was a lie to claim K-D is motivated by his religion.
shira
Dec 2013
#44
If anybody noticed, you didn't answer the question. You just made up your own answer
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2013
#81
Hope your racism and excuses keeps you warm this Christmas season, shira.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2013
#85
See, you're incapable of answering the simplest questions that obliterate yr arguments.
shira
Dec 2013
#88
Liberals don't demonize a certain ethnic group 24/7/365 like anti-zio BDS liars....
shira
Dec 2013
#90
You mentioned apartheid again. At least we agree Nelson Mandela was a great man....
shira
Dec 2013
#63
Yeah, there are too many lies in all these anti-Israel articles about al-Hiran Bedouins
shira
Dec 2013
#37
Israel is so racist they have affirmative action for Bedouins purchasing land....
shira
Dec 2013
#29
You spent a lot of time defending a slanderous, racist article that incited hatred.....
shira
Dec 2013
#80
Israeli Bedouin can buy/lease anywhere. The ILA then compensates the JNF for the land.
shira
Dec 2013
#27
Huh? What does the JNF have to do with it if the ILA mandates that the land is open....
shira
Dec 2013
#39
for the 3rd time the link that explains how it works and how JNF gets land in the Negev
azurnoir
Dec 2013
#40