Operation Unilateral Settlement Displacement Continues into Negev
May 4, 2006
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My first incursion into the Middle East was some 54 years ago, four years after Israel became a state. I have lost count of how many times I have been back in that troubled area since that first year I spent there.
Jordan occupied the West Bank and old city of Jerusalem at that time. The Negev was a barren waste.
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as a small encampment of nomadic Arabs with herds of goats and sheep.
I marveled every time I went back at the fantastic changes in the Negev, and at the ability of the Israel Defense Forces to conceal the military installations and weapons defense systems.
If I had not watched them shift their military equipment and facilities out of the vast Sinai into the much smaller Negev, and then continued to watch their new technology being installed until I retired from the National Security Agency in 1971, I could never have imagined the Negev would become a vast desert fortress, and a War Contingency Evacuation Area in the event of Israel being overrun from the north.
The following article from the Jerusalem Post is one similar to many I have issued on Blogs concerning the continuing populating of the Negev by Israelis forced out of the settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
If you would like to read a history of the military buildup in the Negev, and its development for human occupation over the last 50 years, take a look in our Prophecy Update Archives at Numbers 5 to 12 on our web site, which were written in 2001.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Gov’t to Enlarge Negev Communities
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
May 1, 2006
The Israel Lands Authority began on Monday to prepare land adjacent to the communities of the Hevel Shalom area near the Egyptian border and the Gaza Strip for residential and farming purposes.
The ILA’s decision came as part of the preparation for six communities – Yated, Yevul, Dekel, Prigan, Talmei Yosef and Sde Avraham – to absorb 40 families each.
The Agriculture Ministry approved the expansion of
the six communities by 3,200 dunams, and will raise their water allowances in accordance with the number of families the communities absorb.
The expansion was intended, among other things, to accommodate families evacuated from the Gaza Strip in last year’s disengagement.
End Jerusalem Post Article
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