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In November, Noam Gur, who was jailed in 2012 for refusing to serve in Israel’s army of occupation, spoke at seventeen meetings in thirteen towns and cities across the UK, from Brighton to Glasgow, sponsored by a wide range of organisations.
Women and girls are increasingly on the front lines of Bedouin resistance to Israel’s expropriation of their land — and they’re just getting started.
“A big impetus for this friction is the fact that there’s been a disparity between the Bedouin’s perception of their property rights and Israel’s view of Bedouin property rights,” said David May, a senior research analyst at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. “Bedouin simply don’t have deeds to the land that they claim to be theirs.”
The Negev Desert is threatened by huge settlement projects that the Israeli government is planning to implement in order to force the Bedouins into small population clusters.
The Palestinian national movement has gained new momentum over the past several weeks. But how can the movement be sustained?