Israel

[Quintus Fabius]

Über die Beduinen in Israel:

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-797588

The Negev Bedouins are neglected by the system

Rivers of ink poured on papers after the October 7 attack and the following war. Many spoke of “sobering” from an illusion of security and readiness for a national emergency. Only a few wrote about the failure of Israel’s capacities in handling Israel’s civil response to the damage caused to economy and society. Even fewer wrote about the place of Israel’s Arab citizens both in suffering from the consequences of the war (mass loss of income and jobs, more significant than that of Jewish society) and the role of Arab citizens in holding things together (such as over-representation in the medical system, especially in the South and the devoted treatment in incoming patients from the Gaza envelope and the IDF).

Nearly no one mentioned the harm caused to the weakest of the weakest, Israel’s most socio-economically vulnerable citizens – the Negev Bedouins.

The community of 300,000 Israeli Arab citizens took one of the hardest hits – dozens of Bedouin were kidnapped and murdered by Hamas. Many more were killed by direct hits of Hamas rockets, lives that could be saved if only they were protected sufficiently, as most Israelis are.

Many lives could have been saved if the Negev’s Bedouin villages had been covered by the Iron Dome system and if they had a functioning alarm system notifying people of incoming missiles.

It is time for the state of Israel to diminish this inequality that is costing citizens’ lives.

The inclusion of all Arab citizens and the creation of a truly shared Arab-Jewish society begins with inclusion under the security blanket of protection.