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Israel Is Not Replacing a Bedouin Town with a Jewish Town

(Jerusalem Post) Ari Briggs - Radical organizations are determined to label the story of Hiran in the Negev as one in which Israel is seeking to uproot and destroy a long-standing Bedouin village to establish a "Jewish community" on its ruins. In May 2015, after legal proceedings that lasted for over a decade, Israel's Supreme Court ruled that the petitioners have no ownership of the land, and that their settlement in that location in the 1950s was only temporary. "At no time did the tribe acquire ownership of the land according to the property law of our legal system; they built extensively on the land without any permits, and this is illegal. Most of the tribe moved to Hura, a Bedouin settlement with a regulated and connected infrastructure; the remaining respondents must be evacuated from their homes, while offering them the option of moving to Hura." Those who agree to move to legal settlements are being offered exceptional conditions, with free land and financial compensation that goes well beyond that which is required by law. The judges emphasized that the Bedouin will have the same option as every other citizen to purchase land in the future town of Hiran, so there is no issue of establishing a "Jewish town" on the site. The use of the term "Jewish town" is incorrect and libelous.
2017-01-27 00:00:00
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