'Israeli Arabs have no choice but to build illegally'

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I would think that if Dirasat and similar groups assisted these Israeli Arab communities in navigating the bureaucracy more permits would be issued and the problem would eventually be solved.

Much of the land in the Negev before 1948 belonged to the Bedouin. Many have documents dating to Ottoman times. The JNF and the Israel land administration sequestered this land under the Absentee Land acts, and declared it state land. 93% of Palestine was 'taken over'(ie stolen) by Israel. This has no basis in international law. Arab Israelis pay the same taxes as Jewish Israelis but get little or nothing for it in services or infrastructure. Arabs who represent nearly 20 percent of the present population receive barely 2 percent of the housing. The Israeli Arabs have received only one-third of 1 percent of Israeli public housing built in the last half century. The bureaucratic and financial hurdles to develop or build for the Arab population are made insurmountable, and the much proclaimed 'Judaising' drive by the state is to drive out the Palestinian citizens of Israel from the Negev and Galil. In fact this extreme government does not really want them anywhere, not in Israel, not in the Occupied Territories or Jerusalem, while it continues to build illegally itself in the OPTs and East Jerusalem. This apartheid situation must end, and it is only by pressure from within and outside, with sanctions applied, that will change the situation.

Government should serve all its people equally. Israeli government has failed to meet the needs of a growing Arab population. Bureaucratic procedures and administrative decisions have been used to concentrate Arabs in smaller areas with less services. The widespread practice of denying building permits is just another strategy to "legitimize" housing demolitions later on as the Jewish population expands. Our Jewish traditions say we should help those least able to help themselves. Should we be helping the Arab communities develop thier master plans? Should we be providing for the extension of public services to assist Arabs in implementing their master plans? Should we have a retroactive freeze on housing demolitions to overcome decades of neglect in bringing Arab communities into our planning processes? Should we view Arabs as our equals entitled to all the rights, assistance and mentoring that a government can provide its people? Or are we content to continue to view Arabs as a lower class relegated to pockets of poverty, decrepit housing and lack of government services? The moral foundations of our faith tell me we have a responsibility as individuals and as members of a nation-state that ascribes to a Jewish heritage.

Abandoned and stabed in the back that asked Israel's chalutzim to settle lands. Jews find themselves evicted or limited in the ability to constuct, on the very lands the goverment beged them to settle. Itsa national disgrace, and should not be tolerated.

The other acceptable alternative is for them to go back to arabia. Squatters and trespassers are not part of the plan for reclamation of Israel's land.

The bedouin think they can build whatever they want wherever their want because culturally they believe that their people own the Negev. They don't even apply for planing permission most the time they build their little villages illegally and then demand recognition. The system does not and should not work that way. If a jew living in the city wants to build a fence around his house if he doesn't have permission it can be pulled down and the jew has only himself to blame. The bedouin build whole villages without permission and they say its not fair when the thing is not recognized and pulled down. The government has financed the building of homes for them but if they don't want to live where the government builds they wont live there they will build new homes in the place where they want to stay .. its a modern day version of the traditional bedouin culture they stay in a place and when they get board they pack up the camel and find somewhere else to live. One problem arabs may have all over the country is when they want to build on JNF owned land and that land is allocated for jewish use only and the government can't do anything about that as the JNF is a private trust not a government body. The Olmert government did agree to finance the creation of a new arab village in the Galilee. This article is over simplified and doesn't take into account reasons why arabs sometimes find it harder than jews.

for this it should advocate justice , arabs are fed up with their rulers.... otherwise Israel is doomed to collapse just a matter of time

All a follow up of (Arik Sharon) "Judaization of the Galilee" plans etc. Until our governments educate and bring in practise masterplans like those and feed the public it is OK, we will stay stuck in a circle of inequality. Yes a lot of Arabs have beautiful houses but why on earth can they not build outward only up, do their infrastructures not meet the minimal requirements of the 21th century... I know a lot of Arab muncipalities do not share in the tax paying burdens and also the corruption and whining take equal proportions, but come on start somewhere and that means you cannot have "mitzpim" (lookout posts) which are actually Jewish Villa communities, which sit on top of arab & Druze villages, and not expect any animosity ...how humiliating is that...we need a change of government to Rabin style governing, during his time saw villages progressing & expanding.

First of all the Bedouin structures razed were put up illegally in 1998 on state land. There was a court case and the Bedouin lost. The Israeli government has built thousands of homes for the Bedouin from scratch. As far as master plans go, it costs money. The Arab residents have very low level of paying municipal taxes so there is no money to pay for creating a master plan. Start paying your taxes and stop crying.

In the future palestinian state Arabs will be in charge of building permits for any WB jewish settlement activity...that should give Israel an incentive to allow their Arabs equal access to building permits.

Israeli Arabs can do what English speaking Quebecers do when they aren't happy with their minority role, leave. My 'goal' is to make sure my kids leave Quebec then we go,simple.

I understand that Arab communities have less master plans but the question is why? Less money going to Arab towns? Less access to qualified professionals to design the plans? Less will in the communities? There are plans for a reason. To establish a baseline of basic services and processes for village/town/city planning. Similar to a rule that a building must be up to code, have fire exits, etc. It is for the benefit of those living there. Obviously Arabs want the the same resources as Jews. The question is why aren't they getting them. Just pointing at racism is not enough. I know many of the people who work in these areas and they are not racist towards Arabs. So information is missing here which is vital if the problems is to be solved.

The Report points to a number of reasons that the Arab population suffers from lack of opportunity to legally develop as a growing population that also is becoming urbanized. Part seems to be a lacking on the level of the local leadership..but in Israel there is nothing that is not independent of ties on the national level. (That is why the Kibbutz and Moshav movements could succeed in making the move from rural to more "urban" type planning.) National government, NGO's, architects and local leadership will have to work together.. this will require a bold initiative.. Does mainstream israel have the desire to do it??

There are as 30 arab and islamic states in the world. Palestinian can go there and live over there and build legal houses.

And do it on their own land.