""The one with the Regev quote was this one, May 2012.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/may/09/bedouin-land-culture-israel-resettlement""

Thank you guest, I was aware of that.

Jim's post however was in two parts, and I was referring to what came before the above.

Typical of Keith to use his trademark cherry pick to answer the point that enables him to dodge the issue, rather than the one which was actually made.

Ir still remains the case that there was an eight year gap between the publication of the report on that TOXIC (it really is toxic Keith) site and Regev's sudden desire to move the Bedouins, in spite of which, the Bedouins are still there.

I suspect that they will be the last to be evacuated and that most of them will be placed in the poorest townships, with high crime levels, as has been reported.

The fact is that they are farmers with the capacity to supply food to the nation, while sustaining themselves without government aid

They have been reduced to penury by government refusal to acknowledge their long established tenure of that land, as evidenced by the "non recognition" of their villages and the fencing off of their grazing to reduce their livestock and wreck their financial independence.

Lastly, of course, the Bedouin were already in residence in that area when the decision to locate a toxic site there was made.

Don T.