Water in the Negev
Bedouin Hospitality in the Negev Desert of PalestineSupreme Court set to discuss connecting unrecognized Bedouin towns to water
10 March 2008
By Mijal Grinberg
The Supreme Court is set to discuss Monday whether unrecognized Bedoiun villages in the Negev should be connected to water infrastructure.
Haifa District Court ruled in September that courts should not intervene in the water commissioner's decision not to connect the villages to the infrastructure, saying it is part of a larger issue of regularization of the Bedouin villages in the Negev and therefore outside the court's jurisdiction.
That decision was appealed to the Supreme Court by Adalah ? The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.
The center said the original request to connect the water infrastructure, which was filed by six residents of unrecognized Bedouin villages, was denied primarily in an attempt to pressure residents into moving to permanent Bedouin towns against their will.
"Failure to provide residents with water supply is tantamount to punishment," said the organization. "The right to drinking water is a constitutional right derived from the right to equality, and this is a policy that discriminates against the unrecognized villages."
The appeal also called the decision a "violation of the United Nations charter regarding children's rights, which forbids harming the right of children to develop due to issues independent of them."
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To Carry Water
By HRM Deborah
This situation reminds of when I was a child, because my grandmother was teaching me a lesson about the desert regions of Palestine.
When I was a young girl, my grandmother use to take me to her cabin in the California desert, I know their was no water or plumbing, but I am sorry to say I can not remember if their was electric either.
I was the only grandchild she would take to this cabin, because it was in a manner of speaking her peaceful place.
When we would arrive in her car, she would open the trunk and we would carry in several fairly large bottles of water, which she thought was sufficient for our stay.
She made a remark on one of these visit’s, that in places such as this one, a person always carries water, because it had always been the practical thing to do and if one needed more water they had to travel the distance to a town and get more.
The lesson she was trying to teach me, was the desert in California in that time was a comparison as to how it was in certain places in Palestine.
A water situation had more to do with practicality then whether it violated someone’s right’s, because this is not an issue when you are dealing in these types of regions nor the issue of discrimination, shouldn't be the issue here either, as far as my understanding.
As for child development, for the thousands of years their has been Bedouin children, I have never seen one that did not grow fine and healthy, I will even say the majority became remarkable people.
By Mijal Grinberg
The Supreme Court is set to discuss Monday whether unrecognized Bedoiun villages in the Negev should be connected to water infrastructure.
Haifa District Court ruled in September that courts should not intervene in the water commissioner's decision not to connect the villages to the infrastructure, saying it is part of a larger issue of regularization of the Bedouin villages in the Negev and therefore outside the court's jurisdiction.
That decision was appealed to the Supreme Court by Adalah ? The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.
The center said the original request to connect the water infrastructure, which was filed by six residents of unrecognized Bedouin villages, was denied primarily in an attempt to pressure residents into moving to permanent Bedouin towns against their will.
"Failure to provide residents with water supply is tantamount to punishment," said the organization. "The right to drinking water is a constitutional right derived from the right to equality, and this is a policy that discriminates against the unrecognized villages."
The appeal also called the decision a "violation of the United Nations charter regarding children's rights, which forbids harming the right of children to develop due to issues independent of them."
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To Carry Water
By HRM Deborah
This situation reminds of when I was a child, because my grandmother was teaching me a lesson about the desert regions of Palestine.
When I was a young girl, my grandmother use to take me to her cabin in the California desert, I know their was no water or plumbing, but I am sorry to say I can not remember if their was electric either.
I was the only grandchild she would take to this cabin, because it was in a manner of speaking her peaceful place.
When we would arrive in her car, she would open the trunk and we would carry in several fairly large bottles of water, which she thought was sufficient for our stay.
She made a remark on one of these visit’s, that in places such as this one, a person always carries water, because it had always been the practical thing to do and if one needed more water they had to travel the distance to a town and get more.
The lesson she was trying to teach me, was the desert in California in that time was a comparison as to how it was in certain places in Palestine.
A water situation had more to do with practicality then whether it violated someone’s right’s, because this is not an issue when you are dealing in these types of regions nor the issue of discrimination, shouldn't be the issue here either, as far as my understanding.
As for child development, for the thousands of years their has been Bedouin children, I have never seen one that did not grow fine and healthy, I will even say the majority became remarkable people.
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posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 6:31 PM
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