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What is Behind the Non-Recognition of the Bedouin Villages?
The government of Israel is planning to invest roughly eight billion shekels in the relocation of approximately 40,000 rural Bedouin to overcrowded unemployment-stricken towns. Behind this plan stands the aim of Judaizing the Naqab. The objective is not the settlement of Jews alongside the Bedouin but instead of the Bedouin, and at the expense of their living space.
Last Update: 30/05/2013
The government of Israel is planning to invest roughly eight billion shekels in the relocation of approximately 40,000 rural Bedouin to overcrowded unemployment-stricken towns. Behind this plan stands the aim of Judaizing the Naqab. The objective is not the settlement of Jews alongside the Bedouin but instead of the Bedouin, and at the expense of their living space.
Last Update: 30/05/2013
Update: Prawer-Begin Bill and the Forced Displacement of the Bedouin
An overview of the latest developments regarding the Prawer-Begin Bill, which if enacted into law and implemented, would lead to the eviction and destruction of most of the remaining unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages in the Naqab (Negev) desert in the south of Israel.
Last Update: 30/05/2013
An overview of the latest developments regarding the Prawer-Begin Bill, which if enacted into law and implemented, would lead to the eviction and destruction of most of the remaining unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages in the Naqab (Negev) desert in the south of Israel.
Last Update: 30/05/2013
Obstacles for Palestinians in Seeking Civil Remedies for Damages before Israeli Courts
Palestinian victims of the Israeli army have filed tort lawsuits against the State of Israel to demand compensation for damages they sustained. The right to compensation is a constitutional right that is derived from the individual’s right to protection of his life, physical integrity and property. However, Israel actively seeks to evade responsibility for compensating the victims
Last Update: 30/05/2013
Palestinian victims of the Israeli army have filed tort lawsuits against the State of Israel to demand compensation for damages they sustained. The right to compensation is a constitutional right that is derived from the individual’s right to protection of his life, physical integrity and property. However, Israel actively seeks to evade responsibility for compensating the victims
Last Update: 30/05/2013
When there are no more sick Jews, there's time to treat sick Arabs
If and when the daily bottleneck of patients subsides at the health clinic in the Jewish Naqab (Negev) town of Mitzpe Ramon, and if it is a Thursday or Friday, the doctors drive out to the court-mandated clinic in the unrecognized Bedouin village of ‘Abda.
Last Update: 30/05/2013
If and when the daily bottleneck of patients subsides at the health clinic in the Jewish Naqab (Negev) town of Mitzpe Ramon, and if it is a Thursday or Friday, the doctors drive out to the court-mandated clinic in the unrecognized Bedouin village of ‘Abda.
Last Update: 30/05/2013
Briefing Paper on The Turkel Report – Part II
On 6 February 2013, the second part of the Turkel Commission’s Report was published. It addressed the question of the compatibility of “Israel’s mechanisms for examining and investigating complaints and claims of violations of the laws of armed conflict” with its obligations under international law.
Last Update: 30/05/2013
On 6 February 2013, the second part of the Turkel Commission’s Report was published. It addressed the question of the compatibility of “Israel’s mechanisms for examining and investigating complaints and claims of violations of the laws of armed conflict” with its obligations under international law.
Last Update: 30/05/2013
“Intent to regularise”: The Israeli Supreme Court and the Normalisation of Emergency
One of the first cases brought before Israel’s Supreme Court in 1948 involved a challenge to the validity of the 1945 British Mandate Defence (Emergency) Regulations in the legal order of the nascent Israeli state... The outcome notwithstanding, a clear assumption that the government would annul the regulations in due course pervaded the judgment.
Last Update: 29/05/2013
One of the first cases brought before Israel’s Supreme Court in 1948 involved a challenge to the validity of the 1945 British Mandate Defence (Emergency) Regulations in the legal order of the nascent Israeli state... The outcome notwithstanding, a clear assumption that the government would annul the regulations in due course pervaded the judgment.
Last Update: 29/05/2013
Turkel Report’s Standards for Investigating War Crimes and Other Breaches of International Law
While finding that Israel’s investigative mechanisms comply with international law, the Turkel Report provides extensive “grounds for amending the examination and investigation mechanisms”, “grounds for changing the accepted policy” in several areas, and the need to formalize accepted practices – but only as a “blueprint for optimal improvement”, and not as the identification of “essential flaws”.
Last Update: 29/05/2013
While finding that Israel’s investigative mechanisms comply with international law, the Turkel Report provides extensive “grounds for amending the examination and investigation mechanisms”, “grounds for changing the accepted policy” in several areas, and the need to formalize accepted practices – but only as a “blueprint for optimal improvement”, and not as the identification of “essential flaws”.
Last Update: 29/05/2013
Water in the Naqab (Negev): Source of Life, Tool of Expulsion
The government is using a range of discriminatory policies to compel the people of the unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Naqab to abandon their land, including by violating their fundamental human right to water.
Last Update: 28/02/2013
The government is using a range of discriminatory policies to compel the people of the unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Naqab to abandon their land, including by violating their fundamental human right to water.
Last Update: 28/02/2013
Deciding not to Decide
The Israeli Supreme Court’s new policy has already spared the justices from making several difficult decisions this year
Last Update: 28/02/2013
The Israeli Supreme Court’s new policy has already spared the justices from making several difficult decisions this year
Last Update: 28/02/2013
Observations on the Israeli Knesset Elections
Low turnout was due in large part to a general sense that Arab MKs lack the power to withstand the discriminatory laws in the Knesset
Last Update: 31/01/2013
Low turnout was due in large part to a general sense that Arab MKs lack the power to withstand the discriminatory laws in the Knesset
Last Update: 31/01/2013
Four Reasons to Reject the 'Prawer Plan'
The "Prawer Plan," which the government initially approved in September 2011, outlines a problematic master plan. The plan is reminiscent of a previous government scheme for Arab Bedouin towns in that it seeks to concentrate the Bedouin in crowded settlements while at the same time expropriating most of their lands. Rather than leading the Naqab into a process of reconciliation and to an agreed upon development plan, the Prawer Plan deepens the conflict between the Arab Bedouin citizens and the state. There are four reasons why the bill should be categorically rejected.
Last Update: 31/12/2012
The "Prawer Plan," which the government initially approved in September 2011, outlines a problematic master plan. The plan is reminiscent of a previous government scheme for Arab Bedouin towns in that it seeks to concentrate the Bedouin in crowded settlements while at the same time expropriating most of their lands. Rather than leading the Naqab into a process of reconciliation and to an agreed upon development plan, the Prawer Plan deepens the conflict between the Arab Bedouin citizens and the state. There are four reasons why the bill should be categorically rejected.
Last Update: 31/12/2012
Rachel Corrie: Blaming the victim
Published in Ha'aretz on 2 September 2012. Attorney Hussein Abu Hussein, who represented Rachel Corrie's family in its suit against Israel, says they knew from the beginning that it would be an uphill battle to find truth and justice in an Israeli court.
Last Update: 02/09/2012
Published in Ha'aretz on 2 September 2012. Attorney Hussein Abu Hussein, who represented Rachel Corrie's family in its suit against Israel, says they knew from the beginning that it would be an uphill battle to find truth and justice in an Israeli court.
Last Update: 02/09/2012
The Israeli Supreme Court's Decision in the Citizenship Law Case
Raneen, a 36-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel, is married to 39-year-old Hatem, a Palestinian from the West Bank. They have been living together in the north of Israel since getting married in 1999, and they have three children. They lead a normal family life, with one glaring exception: Hatem has only a temporary residency permit that allows him to stay in Israel for one year. The Interior Ministry has total discretion over whether or not to issue and renew his permit. When Hatem’s current permit expires, he may not be granted another. In such case he may be forced to separate from his family. This is the harsh reality created by Israel’s Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law.
Last Update: 31/01/2012
Raneen, a 36-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel, is married to 39-year-old Hatem, a Palestinian from the West Bank. They have been living together in the north of Israel since getting married in 1999, and they have three children. They lead a normal family life, with one glaring exception: Hatem has only a temporary residency permit that allows him to stay in Israel for one year. The Interior Ministry has total discretion over whether or not to issue and renew his permit. When Hatem’s current permit expires, he may not be granted another. In such case he may be forced to separate from his family. This is the harsh reality created by Israel’s Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law.
Last Update: 31/01/2012
The Right Context of the Knesset’s Laws
The government frequently tries to justify its anti-democratic bills by comparing them to laws in democratic states. Given the current state of affairs, it is perhaps even a good sign that the Netanyahu coalition still believes that it needs international legitimacy to justify these bills. However, when a comparison does not consider the social, political and historical circumstances of the other nations, it is inaccurate and misleading.
Last Update: 01/12/2011
The government frequently tries to justify its anti-democratic bills by comparing them to laws in democratic states. Given the current state of affairs, it is perhaps even a good sign that the Netanyahu coalition still believes that it needs international legitimacy to justify these bills. However, when a comparison does not consider the social, political and historical circumstances of the other nations, it is inaccurate and misleading.
Last Update: 01/12/2011
No Right to Compensation
The state shirks its legal responsibility towards Palestinians who were inadvertently hurt during Israeli military activity in the West Bank and Gaza. Fady Khoury writes on the legal mechanisms that protect the security of everyone, except ‘you know who.’
Last Update: 30/11/2011
The state shirks its legal responsibility towards Palestinians who were inadvertently hurt during Israeli military activity in the West Bank and Gaza. Fady Khoury writes on the legal mechanisms that protect the security of everyone, except ‘you know who.’
Last Update: 30/11/2011
