Israels behandling av beduinene i Umm al-Hiran: - Apartheid

Lederartikkel i Haaretz om Israels behandling av beduinerlandsbyen Umm al-Hiran.
HELE artikkelen nederst under Kilde.

Editorial |

"From Its Ruins, a Settlement: The Story of Umm al-Hiran and the Dark Side of Zionism"

Beduinene må flytte ... etter årelang kamp.
De ble tilvist dette sitt område av IDF etter krigen i 1948.
Men har aldri fått "godkjent" at landsbyen finnes.

NÅ er de presset bort.
Mens jødiske religiøse settlere rykker inn.

Israels behandling av beduniene er oppsummert i denne saken.
Dette er en skremmende historie om forskjellsbehandling, ja apartheid.

Skudeneshavn  16. november 2024

Jan Marton Jensen

Ny Info:
15. november 2024
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-15/ty-article-magazine/.premium/as-bedouin-israelis-are-kicked-off-their-land-they-wonder-how-jews-can-live-there/00000193-30d3-dd57-a9bb-7ddf57c80000?dicbo=v2-sXzd04Z&utm_source=traffic.outbrain.com&utm_medium=referrer&utm_campaign=outbrain_organic

Kilde:
14. november 2024
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2024-11-14/ty-article-opinion/from-its-ruins-a-settlement-the-story-of-umm-al-hiran-and-the-dark-side-of-zionism/00000193-2c49-d506-a5d3-2fdf1e0a0000

HELE artikkelen i Haaretz 14. november 2024:

Editorial |

From Its Ruins, a Settlement: The Story of Umm al-Hiran and the Dark Side of Zionism

Israeli police in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in southern Israel, where authorities demolished the village's last building Thursday.Credit: Israel Police/ AP

The Bedouin residents of Umm al-Hiran had a vineyard, as well as a village, houses, and a mosque. But Israel coveted them. And this week, its covetousness was satisfied. From the rubble of this village in the Negev, the prophet Elijah's cry to King Ahab after the latter had Naboth executed so he could seize his vineyard now echoes: Have you murdered and also inherited?

The history of Umm al-Hiran is the history of the dark side of the Zionist enterprise. Members of the Abu al-Kiyan Bedouin tribe, which has lived in the Negev since the 19th century, were moved to Wadi Hiran in 1956 by the military rule Israel imposed on its Arab citizens at that time.

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The reason for the move was so that Kibbutz Shoval could take over their lands. Some of the residents moved to the nearby town of Hura; others moved to the village of Umm al-Hiran, where they were sent by the state, but which the state never recognized as a legal village.

In 2002, the government decided to build a Jewish community on the village's lands. It began proceedings to evict the Bedouin residents on the grounds that they were squatting there illegally. In 2010, the National Planning and Building Council decided to recognize Umm al-Hiran. But after the Prime Minister's Office intervened, the council rescinded its decision overnight.

Israel then decided to build a religious Zionist community on the Bedouin village's lands.

A years-long battle against this evil decree led to the killing of teacher Yakub Abu al-Kiyan, through no fault of his own, during a demolition in the village in 2017. Policeman Erez Levy was also killed when Abu al-Kiyan's car hit him, apparently because the teacher lost control after being shot.

Both the police commissioner and the prime minister accused Abu al-Kiyan of being a terrorist, and Levy's death was termed a car-ramming attack. It took another three years before the prime minister cleared Abu al-Kiyan's name; he had been shot for nothing.

In the shadow of this incident, the Authority for Development and Settlement of Bedouin in the Negev asked the residents to sign an agreement to move to Hura in exchange for fair compensation. Most did sign, for lack of choice.

But the state froze that agreement too, and the eviction orders went back into force. This week, the long saga finally ended. The residents began demolishing their homes so they wouldn't be fined for making the state do the work. And on Tuesday, the state demolished the mosque.

There is already a sign at the entrance to Umm al-Fahm that reads "Dror," the name of the Jewish community to be built there. Decades of Bedouin residence in this desert valley have come to an end solely because of the residents' national identity. In the Jewish state, they were forced to give up their village in favor of a group of religious Zionists.

The last residents of Umm al-Hiran are moving to Hura, even though city living contradicts their lifestyle, culture and traditions. In the whole expanse of the Negev, no place could be found for the Jewish community other than the lands of Umm al-Hiran.

The above article is Haaretz's lead editorial, as published in the Hebrew and English newspapers in Israel.