These 2 guys are sure behaving like our garbage-men!

The Government always kowtows to the Haredim who give nothing to the country, don't serve in the army and many of who don't even recognize the State of Israel. The Bedouins have been living here and are loyal to Israel so why antagonize them? As for Barakeh, Tibi & Co, they are just a bunch of hypocrites jumping on the "racist" bandwagon. They are far more concerned with vilifying the country that gives them full civil rights and more freedom than another Arab country would give them and promoting the Palestinian "cause" rather than seeing to the needs of their own voters in Israel! From a democratic point of view, well, if the Bedouins are to be evicted from their illegal settlements, will the same apply to the settlers of the West Bank who live in illegal settlements as defined this and previous Governments? This law needs a rethink!

#23 Nick, you are right ,but the problem is that Israel owns 99% of state-owned land and does what it wants, you think they are worried about the Bedouin??, no, they are not.

Elsie, thank you for your reply but I don't think it changes any of my points. By definition "state-owned land" is owned by the state (Israel in this case) so I'm not sure what you mean to say with that particular comment. Also, if as reported in the Times of Israel, the plan calls for Israel "to officially recognize and register the vast majority of the Bedouin settlements throughout the south of Israel and to compensate those whom the state plans to move off state-owned land" it would seem that most Bedouin are in fact having their claims agreed to by the state.

the state of Israel and don't serve the army either, so you say the left wingers r not entitled for housing, sound about right. don't you think.

the problem with the bedouins began in1948 when the state of Israel made them leave their nomadic lifestyle and become Israelbound citizens. before 1948 they used to travel back and forth without citizenship, from Egypt through Israel through Jordan when the final destination was Saudi and back aal the way to Egypt. in 1948 some established permanent villages in the north, however the south bedouins continued migrating in the Negev region. therefor there weren't given deeds. now they claim they own residency to undeclared public area.

nothing today but big donation last week. and you ? don't get your point

#34, Nick I must say that I did not understand all of these new laws as it is not clear yet what they really are going to do as I said 99% of Israel land belongs to the Jewish land ministry and they do what they want, so lets see if they really will do compensation in money or land, one thing for sure ,they want the Bedouins out, no matter how!!

"Delegitimize" me? Who, you? Fraudulent "Sarah B?" Dream on. You are both strictly minor league. I'm all-star. Now crawl back under your bridge, troll. Go vomit your nonsense on al Jazeera; they will welcome your input.

#35 ghostq, actually most Israeli "left-wingers" DO recognize the state of Israel and DO serve in the army. (I assume you're not Israeli or have no relatives in Israel, so perhaps you weren't aware of that.) #38 Elsie, yes, I certainly hope that things work out and an agreement which all sides can live with is reached. If the Times of Israel report is accurate it certainly seems that the proposed new law is relatively reasonable but if there are aspects which the Bedouin are not happy with, I hope those can be sorted out in a satisfactory way.