A modern well and a modern tamarisk tree at Tel Beer Sheva,
along with the reconstruction of an altar discovered there; reminders of the
well Abraham dug, the tamarisk tree he planted, and the worship he offered when
making a covenant or treaty to deal well with the people of the land in which
he was then a foreigner. ‘From Dan [in
the north] to Beersheba [in the south]’ became a way to express the promised
land, and is how it is described when Moses sees it from Mount Nebo shortly
before he dies. Today there are
proposals to remove the remaining Bedouin villages, concentrating their
residents in a small number of designated towns, thought to be opening up the
way for the establishment of further Jewish settlements across the area. Water remains the headline issue: it is not provided
to the ‘unrecognised’ Bedouin villages, and there is a differential in its
provision elsewhere.
Thursday, 14 November 2013
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