What a great place to practice colonization.

FYI, before the creation of modern Israel, the Negev desert was almost entirely populated by Arab Bedouins. Nearly 100,000 fled during the ethnic cleansing of 1948.

My parents were forced to leave Haifa in 1948 under threat of death and they were among the 750,000 forced out of the country and their land stolen.

Of the Bedouins still living in the Negev, half live in government-designated towns and cities, much like Native reservations in the United States, and the other half live in unrecognized villages.