An Israeli freed from Gaza returns to a Bedouin village targeted for demolition [View all]

This is the headline from a story running on MSN.com that is sourced as originally from the L.A. Times. The recently freed hostage who is a Bedouin returned to his village to celebration of his return but it is perhaps only for a short while before there is no village. The bulldozers are coming and most of the villagers have received notices that their homes are to be destroyed.

While claims about the people having built in an environmental area without permits sounds plausible on it's face it should be noted that a human rights group in Israel, called B'Tselem, that monitors and reports on human rights activities in the Occupied Territories has noted that over the years one of the ways the right wing governments in Israel modified and restricted Palestinian land, building and development was to declare "nature areas" etc. and thereby deny building permits. Do we have something like that here? Given the treatment of the Bedouins over the many years it bears thought.

Speaking of B'Tselem I have a post I'm working on that uses some of their maps and narrative about mainly the West Bank and Jerusalem and how the various "measures" and "official policies" have morphed things tremendously. They do use some phrasing and words that can be considered "inflammatory" by some but that sort of thing is not the reason I'm working on that post. It is for the maps and the general visual sense and references of various results. In other words I am not putting it up in order to have a debate about "chicken and egg" attacks and counter attacks. It is solely for the purpose of getting a sense of the reality of what the physical installations etc. were pre-1967 by way of mapped representation and then how it changed in successive stages. I am not about the who or why. I am about showing by way of maps of the settlements, outposts, villages, camps, roads, barriers etc. how the changes have made the concept of the "2 State Solution" very difficult to contemplate going forward. It would take a massive amount of time and removal of what has been placed since 1967. I do not argue for or against it but I felt it would be informative for people to see the graphical representation of things on maps. Maybe if I'm not too lazy I'll get it done this weekend.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/an-israeli-freed-from-gaza-returns-to-a-bedouin-village-targeted-for-demolition/ar-AA1pEJRp