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                     Arab Bedouin of Israel's Negev Desert

   Around 200,000 Bedouins live in the Negev Desert of Israel, all of them
   Israeli citizens and most of them concentrated in an area around the
   city of Beersheva. They lived under military rule until the 1960's and
   have since resisted government attmpts to move them into seven larger,
   recognized towns. The Bedouin live in dozens of unrecognized
   settlements across the northern Negev; the state says these settlements
   are illegal and refuses to provide them with running water,
   electricity, roads, health care and other municipal services. The
   Israeli Interior Ministry carries out house demolitions and takes other
   sanctions against the Bedouin, who say that their traditional way of
   life and tribal society structure is being eroded. If the proposed
   Prawer-Begin law is passed, as many as 40,000 Bedouins will be forcibly
   removed from their homes.
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