{"id":14540,"date":"2010-08-01T12:43:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T18:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14540"},"modified":"2010-08-01T12:43:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T18:43:49","slug":"max-blumenthal-the-%e2%80%9csummer-camp-of-destruction%e2%80%9d-israeli-high-schoolers-assist-the-razing-of-a-bedouin-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14540","title":{"rendered":"Max Blumenthal: The \u201cSummer Camp Of Destruction:\u201d Israeli High Schoolers Assist The Razing Of A Bedouin Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Max Blumenthal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_14541\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/arakib-chairs-1024x768.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14541\" data-attachment-id=\"14541\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=14541\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/arakib-chairs-1024x768.jpg?fit=1024%2C768\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"arakib-chairs-1024&#215;768\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Moments before the destruction of the Bedouin village of al-Arakib, Israeli high school age police volunteers lounge on furniture taken from a family&#8217;s home.  Photo by Ata Abu Madyam of Arab Negev News.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/arakib-chairs-1024x768.jpg?fit=300%2C225\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/arakib-chairs-1024x768.jpg?fit=640%2C480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/arakib-chairs-1024x768.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" title=\"arakib-chairs-1024x768\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/arakib-chairs-1024x768.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/arakib-chairs-1024x768.jpg?resize=150%2C112 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/arakib-chairs-1024x768.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moments before the destruction of the Bedouin village of al-Arakib, Israeli high school age police volunteers lounge on furniture taken from a family's home.  Photo by Ata Abu Madyam of Arab Negev News.<\/p><\/div>AL-ARAKIB, ISRAEL \u2014 On July 26, Israeli police demolished 45 buildings in the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Arakib, <a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2010\/07\/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine.html\">razing the entire village to the ground<\/a> to make way for a Jewish National Fund forest. The destruction was part  of a larger project to force the Bedouin community of the Negev away  from their ancestral lands and into seven Indian reservation-style  communities the Israeli government has constructed for them. The land  will then be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.negev.org\/About\/negev_desert.htm\">open for Jewish settlers<\/a>,  including young couples in the army and those who may someday be  evacuated from the West Bank after a peace treaty is signed. For now,  the Israeli government intends to uproot as many villages as possible  and erase them from the map by establishing \u201cfacts on the ground\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnf.org\/work-we-do\/blueprint-negev\/\">in the form of JNF forests<\/a>. (See video of of al-Arakib\u2019s demolition\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bvD-2BsPAQU&amp;feature=player_embedded\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/\/maxblumenthal.com\/2010\/07\/the-summer-camp-of-destruction-israeli-high-schoolers-join-in-the-destruction-of-a-bedouin-town\/\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Max Blumenthal AL-ARAKIB, ISRAEL \u2014 On July 26, Israeli police demolished 45 buildings in the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Arakib, razing the entire village to the ground to make way for a Jewish National Fund forest. The destruction was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14540\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3Mw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14540"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14549,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions\/14549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}