[news] "I Am a Zionist & This is Zionism": Private Contractors Being Used to Evict Israeli Arabs

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

by Neve Gordon and Erez Tzafadia - UK Guardian

For less than four dollars an hour, the Jewish teenagers removed furniture, clothes, kitchenware and toys from the homes and loaded them on to trucks. As they worked diligently alongside the many policemen who had come to secure the destruction of 30 houses in two unrecognised Bedouin [Arab] villages, Bedouin teenagers stood by watching their homes being emptied...[When] a Bedouin activist asked one of the Jewish teenagers why he had agreed to participate in the eviction...the teenager replied: "I am a Zionist and what we are doing here today is Zionism."  


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