Thanks for your honest observations on this shameful situation.
I have read elsewhere that Israel has practiced using herbicides on Bedouin crops in the Negev, something much like America's godawful use of Agent Orange in Vietnam, something causing deformed babies to this day.
I don't know the precise truth of the matter, but Israel's other behaviors leave one with little reason to doubt.
A good news reader must always read between the lines and interpolate between half-truths, and this is particularly true for any state - Israel or the United States - that wages constant war.
It is difficult to understand Israel's behavior - the whole set of them towards both Arab neighbors and citizens, not just this one situation - in any other light than as ethnic-cleansing in slow motion.
