Ethnic cleansing. The Israeli government is about to make one of its most outrageous decisions in recent years (and there is no shortage of those, as you know). The government will hold a special session in Sde Boker – the Kibbutz in which David Ben-Gurion is buried – to confirm plans to build a new Jewish town (along with several others – all for Jews) in the northeast region of the Negev desert. The symbolism is clear: Ben-Gurion believed that the Negev is Zionism’s final frontier, and all Jewish pioneering effort should take place there.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 13:57:53 +0000