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New IDF program looks to increase Bedouin recruits
Yoav Zitun
Published: 04.12.11, 20:10
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1. Increase Bedouin recruits
John ,   Hamilton, ON   (12.04.11)
Is that why you are planning to move 30,000 Bedouins out of the Negev and into ghettos? That's quite the reward for the Bedouins who have been loyal "Israelis".
2. Perhaps first....
Bob ,   TA   (12.04.11)
... bring electricity and water to their "unrecognized" villages, stop threatening to displace thousands of them... and them beg them to join IDF.
3. #1 Quit the sarcasm, its called cities, for some not all
hippocrates ,   earth   (12.04.11)
just like anywhere else. Please use your brain before typing.
4. #01 Your post is full of it! END.
Maxim ,   ISRAELOAMERICAN   (12.04.11)
5. Bedouins
(12.05.11)
Many of those that do serve go home to shacks without electricity and running water....and this in the 21st century in the "modern" country of Israel. No wonder that more of the young people don't want to enlist and actually hate us.
6. 1
john Darren ,   cairns-Australia   (12.05.11)
too scared to use the word Israelis properly Arab?
7. The fact is, #1, the supposedly idyllic
Robert Haymond ,   Israel/Canada   (12.05.11)
nomadic life of the Bedouin communities is no longer feasible. Were you to visit, and explore, Israel, (which I can see you never have as your statement is so full of arrogance typical of the ignorant), you would also find Bedouin communities with homes, mosques and businesses, just as you would find Jewish villages. There is no danger for Jews to enter Bedouin villages nor vice-versa. But not all Bedouins possess stable and functional communities and this is what the government of Israel is trying to rectify. The same situation prevailed in the USA and Canada amongst the Plains and Prairie Indians. The switch from a nomadic to more urbanized life is, of course, painful. You condemn Israel out of your sheer lack of knowledge, education and, I'm afraid, due to what appears to be a severe dislike of our state and, from the attitude picked up on the post, out of a disdain for the Jewish people who make up the nation of Israel. I hope this post reaches you.
8. #1 John-Hamilton
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (12.05.11)
To move the Bedouin closer to schooling & Hospitals, to have them live in modern conditions, including running water & sanitation We don't intend to treat them in the same abominable manner you have treated the Native Canadian Indians
9. To #1: It's not so simple as you paint it
Yitzhak ,   Hannaton, Israel   (12.05.11)
This morning my daughter got on her school bus which took her and her friends to school at the Jewish village of Givat Elah. The only way to Givat Elah is through Zarzir, a Bedouin village. A number of Zarziri children go to my child's school. Zarzir is well to do. Clean, wide avenues, large homes and Israeli flags proudly flying on the lampposts of the main street.  I often do my grocery shopping there and get my haircut there every month  This town is full of Bedouin IDF veterans taking full advantage of already existing IDF programs. A similar Bedouin village, Bir al Maksour, is just a  kilometer away from my own village of Hannaton. Shepherds from Bir al Maksour often graze their sheep and cattle on our lands as part of an agreement.  So you see the situation here for Bedouin is complex and should not be generalized.   Come for a visit, I'll gladly show you around and introduce you to our neighbors. 
10. We are talking about forcible relocation.
John ,   Hamilton, ON   (12.06.11)
Don't give me any paternalistic B. S. about how much better it is for them. If it is better then there should be no problem persuading them to relocate. Where are the jobs? Without jobs for the beneficiaries of your largesse, you are creating ghettos!
11. good luck after you displaced so many this year alone!
abdalla   (12.06.11)
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