Summary
An aggressive quasi-military entity created by Ariel Sharon in 1978, operating out of the Israel Land Administration, whose sole purpose in Dinero’s account was relocating the Bedouin off the land and into the towns (Settling for Less — The Planned Resettlement of Israel’s Negev Bedouin, PDF p.46).
Details
- Throughout the 1980s Negev Bedouin resettlement often relied on forced, rather than voluntary, relocation undertaken by the Green Patrol, “seemingly at any cost” (PDF p.46).
- Bedouin in the Pezurah build in ever-stronger materials — tin shacks, then cinder block — in part to make their communities less likely to be destroyed or uprooted by “the Green Patrol and its army of bulldozers” (PDF p.51).
Related pages
Settling for Less — The Planned Resettlement of Israel’s Negev Bedouin, Arik Sharon, Pezurah, Bedouin Authority