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BOX 13.4 CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL CONTROVERSIES: BEDOUIN REFUGEES IN ISRAEL One group's claim to territory or sovereignty often excludes and disadvantages another. According to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (www.acri.org.il). Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has ignored the Bedouin's historical presence in the region and has sought to transfer and concentrate the population into a small geographic area in the northeastern Negev-in order to confine their living space and free up the most fertile areas of the Negev for Jewish agricultural settlement. The state continues to deny recognition to the Bedouin villages and to deny the villagers their right to their own soil, which they have lived upon and worked for decades. Up to thirty thousand Bedouin residents are targeted for evacuation and relocation to towns, and many others have already had their land seized and their economy undermined. Some will receive compensation, but only if they can provide documentation of ownership-something that most indigenous peoples of the world do not possess. What do you think?

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Indigenous people across the world were put to great trouble by the technologically advanced colonizers. This would mean that the colonizers aggressively drive indigenous people away from their lands and livelihood in order to establish their own establishment. The acts of the Jews in Israel are very similar to the Manifest Destiny of the Whites in the US. Israel does the same to the Bedouin in Israel. It would be very ridiculing if the government asks for the land documents to the indigenous people because they ran their societies with trust. Thus, they know that whatever land is given to them by their group belongs to them. Moving them to the cities would only make them disperse into the majority and they would soon be forgotten from history.

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