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"the committee will submit recommendations for an expansive, comprehensive, and realizable program that sets guidelines for Bedouin settlement arrangements in the Negev - including compensation levels, alternative land allocation arrangements - and that includes recommendations for legislation as needed."
COHRE expressed concern about forced evictions, home demolitions, and various other matters relating to the security and welfare of Bedouin residents. It urged the Goldberg Committee to assure "the human dignity of the Bedouin inhabitants, based on respect for their inalienable human rights." The Committee's report recommended that Negev "unrecognized" villages be recognized.
Nonetheless, the entire Atir-Umm al-Hieran village may be leveled, its residents systematically evicted to make way for a planned Jewish community. According to Adalah, public apathy about this is shocking, hypocritical, and downplayed in popular discourse, the way it always is on issues concerning Arabs in a state favoring Jewish interests alone.
Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
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