Negev crisis: Seeing the forest for the trees - editorial
On the one hand, Israel has every right to exert its sovereignty within its territory. On the other, Bedouins see the tree-planting on land they use for farming as part of a campaign to expel them.
Bedouin women gesture as they stand by an Israeli policeman during a protest against forestation at the Negev desert village of Sawe al-Atrash, southern Israel(photo credit: REUTERS/AMMAR AWAD)ByJPOST EDITORIAL