Word: negev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear history was the 1968 disappear ance at sea of a shipment of 200 tons of uranium. The heist was not confirmed until 1977, when it was generally assumed that the Israelis had latched onto the ore, enough to make 30 bombs at their atomic reactor in the Negev. This insubstantial news snippet was seized upon by bestselling English Novelist Ken Follett (Eye of the Needle), who has processed it into one of the liveliest thrillers of the year...
...encampment of Tel al Malach-the "Hill of Salt"-is a huddled cluster of tents and tin shacks moored uncertainly on the monotonous wastes of the northeastern Negev, the barren desert that adjoins the Sinai inside integral Israeli territory. The 10,000 Bedouin tribesmen of the region, who are Israeli Arab citizens, have extracted a primitive livelihood there for hundreds of years, tending small flocks of sheep and raising meager harvests of wheat. Though Bedouins are traditionally nomadic, these have never strayed far from the four tribal cemeteries where their ancestors are buried...
...compensation but without right of judicial appeal, and to impel the displaced tribesmen to resettle into new industrial townships. The Bedouins have raised their small minority voice in protest, even vowing that blood will be spilled before the controversy is over, but thus far to no avail. When the Negev Lands Purchase Law receives parliamentary approval in the Knesset, which seems assured, the Bedouins of Tel al Malach will have become little noticed victims of irrepressible development, and indirectly of the Middle East peace process...
...Israeli government wants the land for one of three new military airfields it plans to build in the Negev to replace bases that will be lost in the course of the phased Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai. Government officials argue that this vital security interest justifies a special law, that the peace treaty timetable requiring final withdrawal by March 1982 allows no time for prolonged appeal proceedings, and that optional land and monetary compensation-ranging from $83 to $250 an acre-will be adequate...
...townships, the Bedouins argue instead for the creation of their own moshavim, the model agricultural cooperatives that have been especially successful in the northern Sinai. But Israeli government officials have long insisted that the tribesmen are needed as a labor force for new industries that are planned for the Negev. Moreover, the well-equipped, high production moshavim require large tracts and expensive irrigation. And, as one senior official bluntly told TIME's Lesley Hazleton, "I'm not giving good Jewish land and water to Arabs...