Doron Almog

Then MK Moshe Dayan and Bedouin MK Sheikh Hamad Abu Rabia in the Knesset, September 3, 1975. (Photo: Moshe Milner/GPO)
The military face behind the Prawer Plan’s civilian mask
‘The Bedouin will not live on his land with his flock, but rather will be part of the urban class that comes  in the afternoon and puts on his slippers,’ Moshe Dayan said in 1963. In the 50 years since, not much has changed regarding Israel’s efforts to justify its policy in the Negev: as…
By Haokets December 10, 2013
Mounted Israeli policemen chase a Bedouin youth during a protest against the Israeli government's Prawer Plan, on road 31 on November 30, 2013 near the town of Hura, Israel.
Prawer Plan: How the natives became invaders in their own homes
The attempt to forcibly resettle a native minority population justifies international interest. If it continues, international intervention will be justified as well. Members of the foreign press in Israel received an invitation this week for a tour in the south to “explore the topic” of the Bedouin population. The visit is intended to present the plan…
By Noam Sheizaf December 5, 2013
A Bedouin protest against the implementation of the Prawer Plan for the unrecognized villages, March 2012 (photo: Activestills.com)
Collision course: Plan to displace tens of thousands of Bedouin passes first Knesset vote
The implementation of the Prawer Plan for unrecognized villages in the Negev has become a major policy objective for the Netanyahu government. Following one of the most heated debates the Israeli parliament has seen in recent years, the Knesset approved the Prawer-Begin Plan for the Arrangement of Bedouin-Palestinian Settlement in the Negev yesterday (Monday). Commonly referred to…
By Noam Sheizaf June 25, 2013
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In Corrie ruling, court calls nonviolent activism ‘practically violent’
An Israeli judge claims activists who oppose house demolitions – and not those who demolish them – are the perpetrators of violence. The Israeli court system was, for a long time, the most successful fig leaf of the only Jewish state in the Middle East.  Now it has gone diving into the Hasbara morass. After “diplomatic terrorism”…
By Yossi Gurvitz August 30, 2012
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