Summary
Professor in the Geography Department at Haifa University, presented in Settling for Less — The Planned Resettlement of Israel’s Negev Bedouin as the foremost academic voice of the Jewish Israeli “bedouin intifada” fear discourse (Settling for Less — The Planned Resettlement of Israel’s Negev Bedouin, PDF p.168-169).
Details
- His oft-cited publication “Trends among the Bedouin in the northern Negev — A threat to the entire Negev” is quoted: “It is no longer possible to postpone addressing the Bedouin problem, unless Israeli leaders are prepared to throw up their hands and relinquish the entire Negev”; the Negev combines “the wildest demographics in modern history” with land expansion, crime and terror, while the establishment responds “with a show of weakness and trembling knees”, and “the Negev has descended into anarchy” (PDF p.168).
- Soffer stated (21 June 2007) that in his opinion the “intifada” is not on its way but has already arrived, with burglaries, car thefts and vandalism taking on nationalistic proportions (PDF p.169).
Related pages
Settling for Less — The Planned Resettlement of Israel’s Negev Bedouin, Naqab, Bedouin identity