Eric Paul

Property and Unfreedom in the Negev

On July 24, 2010 I traveled with a group of peacemakers to the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib.  Located just north of Beer-Sheva in the Negev Desert, the Bedouin are indigenous Arabs with Israeli citizenship.  Forced off their land in 1948, many returned in the mid-1950’s only to be relocated to a restricted area called the […]