Ethnic Cleansing?

[eumelia]

What Ethnic Cleansing?
While we were sleeping!?
No, no way.

Sarcasm aside.

Over the night 1000+ police men demolished the Beduin village on El-Araqib situated in the Negev, just north of Beer Sheva (the largest Southern town).
The village had 30 houses and they've all been bulldozed.

I've only seen small update reports in the News websites and a few short blog-posts like on The Only Democracy and Mondoweiss.

The reason for this demolition?
The Jewish National Fund deemed the land designated for Jewish use only and are planning on planting a forest there.
No, really.

I can't believe I heard the report about this happening from Facebook.

Comments

[silveradept]

...let me guess. There's no such thing as eminent domain protections in Israel like there are supposed to be here in the States.

[amethystfirefly]

How horrible.

[ironed_orchid]

Oh fuck.