{"id":2896,"date":"2015-03-28T06:56:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T03:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jahalin.org\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2015-03-28T06:56:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T03:56:26","slug":"march-negev-jerusalem-bid-recognise-bedouin-villages-ayman-odeh-middle-east-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/?p=2896","title":{"rendered":"A march from Negev to Jerusalem in bid to recognise Bedouin villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/march-negev-jerusalem-bid-recognise-bedouin-villages-1994051856\" target=\"_blank\">Middle East Eye<\/a> &#8212; March 26, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By MEE Staff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The head of Israel\u2019s third largest political party Ayman Odeh began a four-day walk on Thursday from the Negev desert to Jerusalem in order to bring attention to the issue of unrecognised Bedouin villages.<\/p>\n<p>Odeh has long campaigned for the rights of the Bedouins in the desert, where there are as many as 40 unrecognised villages that are not connected to the state\u2019s electricity or water grids and lack basic infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe existence of unrecognised villages, which have no water, electricity, schools or institutions is not just a stain on the government but a continuous crime and tragedy,\u201d Odeh said. \u201cThese villages existed before the creation of Israel by decades. I decided to walk from the Negev to the Knesset before the formation of the new government to emphasise the priority of the issue and the depth of the ongoing crime.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Article continued here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/march-negev-jerusalem-bid-recognise-bedouin-villages-1994051856\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/march-negev-jerusalem-bid-recognise-bedouin-villages-1994051856<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted by Middle East Eye &#8212; March 26, 2015 By MEE Staff The head of Israel\u2019s third largest political party Ayman Odeh began a four-day walk on Thursday from the Negev desert to Jerusalem in order to bring attention to the issue of unrecognised Bedouin villages. Odeh has long campaigned for the rights of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[51,58,185,201,219,260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}