{"id":1752,"date":"2012-03-28T18:08:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T16:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jahalin.org\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2012-03-28T18:08:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T16:08:16","slug":"no-country-for-old-bedou-men-by-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/?p=1752","title":{"rendered":"No country for old Bedou men- by Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Traditional Bedouin communities are at a “breaking point” in Israel and Palestine. They now face an impossible dilemma.<\/span><\/h2>\n

March 2011<\/h4>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

“Amid the rubble of Al-Aizariya you can see the fruits of compromise.<\/p>\n

This shanty town of 3,000 Jahalin Bedouin lies just south of Jerusalem, a short walk from the city’s main garbage dump.<\/p>\n

They are housed in scrap-metal shacks without water or electricity. Grazing animals, their primary source of income, bring diseases from the chemical waste nearby. Modern, permanent housing is slowly beginning to appear.<\/p>\n

Despite these conditions, most Bedouin communities in Israel and Palestine would trade places in a heartbeat.<\/p>\n

While unrecognised villages in the Negev and the Jordan Valley face new waves of demolitions, the Jahalin possess that most precious and elusive commodity: security.<\/p>\n

Like the vast majority of Bedouins in the region, the residents of Al-Aizariya were based in the Negev until the Nakbah of 1948 forced them out.<\/p>\n

They arrived here in 1997, via a second displacement on land now occupied by the Ma’ale Adummim settlement.<\/p>\n

In return for their voluntary departure they were given around $10,000 compensation per family. More importantly, they were granted the rights to this wretched piece of land and eventually the right to build\u00a0\u2013 today, there stands a modest school and health clinic. […]”<\/p>\n

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Full article here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2011\/03\/20113238021537781.html<\/a><\/p>\n


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