Negev: More Context

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The dispute today is over land ownership. Bedouin families around
Arakib say they own about 4,600 acres of the desert, insisting that
paid taxes during the Ottoman period and British Empire. Gravestones
the cemetery show some families have inhabited the area for at least
140 years.

In 1951, Bedouin leaders say, they were forced by Israel's military into settlements along the West Bank border. "They told us we could come back in six months," said Nori Uqbi, a community...