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Thread #150703   Message #3599034
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
07-Feb-14 - 03:01 AM
Thread Name: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
"Extreme racist sites -"
LIE
"Support for arming Assad -"
LIE
"now support for an open policy of ethnic cleansing"
LIE

From your link Jim.
"The Bedouin resettlement authority said, "The plan is groundbreaking and for the most part legalizes current residences with the creation of rural settlement models, in accordance with the needs of the Bedouin sector." It added that the plan includes economic development, infrastructure, education and employment solutions."

But then, it never happened did it Jim?
"The Prawer Plan called for Israel to officially recognize and register the vast majority of Bedouin settlements throughout the south, and compensate the residents of 35 unrecognized villages — some 30,000 to 40,000 people — who were to be moved off state-owned land into towns built for them.

"Several days ago, the chairman of the Knesset coalition announced that there is not a majority supporting the bill in its present form," Begin said, and indicated that there was a movement afoot to change the bill.

Begin told the assembled reporters that the efforts to "introduce far-reaching changes in the government's formulation" led him to call for its shelving.

"Since the bill reached the Knesset," he said, "all sorts of interest groups have gotten involved, trying to take advantage of the plight of the Negev Bedouin in order to achieve political gain."

"We must not allow a hostile takeover of the bill. We must not allow its kidnapping and its distortion," he said."