Why do our professions determine the nature of our social relations?

Rural and tribal society is the hurdle on the path of human advancement.

Human communities are various around the world. Some consumer, while others are productive. We live in a globalized universe where life is accelerating to the degree that you have to keep up with sophistication. Otherwise, you'll stay entrapped in the box, which is a big problem on the path of human development that requires you to get your mind off certain realms that withhold the mental capacities from making creativity.

In this context, I'm trying to prove the argument that conservative, rural, tribal or traditional communities are the main hurdle that impedes the human development. I think such communities are in dire need of "a shaking up process" in order to sweep off the elements that curb the development of the human mind and prevents it from updating its thoughts by throwing out the outdated things.

To explain more, the nature of mentality that's existing within the conservative or rural realms believe that the human mind is a pot must be dedicated to certain traditions that people or the adherents of this think that they're the only way to move on with the human life. Not to mention, those people believe that science and logical postulates come only out of places where preachers interpret religious texts based on their own interpretation without a sound logic. The dilemma is, those people are judgmental without critical thinking or taking a look at the other side of the mirror -other cultures- societies or civilizations to put new colors and find where's the rift or the point where those folks in other communities have made successes in order to deepen their thinking of what's the problem with the community they live in.

It's not a matter of beautifying other cultures and looking down on yours at all. Because conservative and rural communities have never reflected the real culture that characterizes entity within them due to the reason that culture and intellectualism are neglected. The tangible outcomes of these communities is a mentality rejects the principle of taking in new thoughts which contradict the common sense as they think. It's totally false, just bring in the intellectual products of other communities and have an argument over it. Check out what are the deficiencies either in yours or in the others. Basically, you in the conservative and rural community don't use the sound logic in your own culture, because you don't read to figure out how valuable your intellectual products are when opening up with the others which gives you the chance to develop your them. But, you don't want this, you are surrendered to the social hegemony that forces you to stay under the umbrella of backwardness.

It's fine, you're religious or believing in a certain faith, just bring it out and debate over it don't keep silent because of certain fears from bringing new ideas in. It's a matter of courage to get out of a small geographic area where the human beings have kept on the same level of thinking. God gave us the mind for filling it up with renewable knowledge, and it's an inevitable chance to develop it and leave what holds you back behind. Don't keep listening to outdated arguments, this won't help you out at all!

This is what conservative and rural communities are characterized by. For instance, in a near village, there are approx. 18.000 population, up till now, there haven't been any kind of creativities, scientific papers have been published, new intellectuals and debators to help us with generating new thoughts might be feasible for this globe. Not at all.

I'm afraid to make statistics to collide with awful results about rural and tribal communities that represent a massive part of many countries. What have they offered so far?

Why have many creative people ended up being losers? What prevents them from keeping up? Certainly, many pioneers are struggling within such suffocating realms.

There is a big problem must be tackled as soon as possible.

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It might be fine to end up uncovering the fact that the whole matter is a mere mirage after a long time of struggle to have somebody in your heart!

My physical impairment doesn't justify your negligence to me.

The Two-State Solution is an unknown destiny. But, what about Bedouins in E1 area?

    Throughout many years of the prolonged negotiation between both the Israeli and Palestinian sides over many issues to establish an internationally recognized Palestinian State which has proven fruitless. The equation that finally came out of this failure as the Israeli official attitude indicates that there is no security without settlement and no settlement without security in the depth of the Palestinian Territories.

Based on this approach as clarified in the map, the Israeli government shortly aftermath of the War of 1967 that led to annexing Jerusalem entirely by the Israeli forces, came up with the “Greater Jerusalem” venture to be its permanent capital. Accordingly, the surrounding areas located outside the city boundaries shall have acceded to its municipal jurisdiction. Many dimensions prompted Israelis to implement this plan, like a security need which is a strategy that implies a reality whose parameters came into being many years later specifically after the Oslo Peace Accords. It’s proven to be an expansive and comprehensive plan that aims at thwarting the dream of the Two-State Solution by dividing the Palestinian Territories –the area is supposed to be a Palestinian State- up into two parts that reflect the political dimension.

Tracing this issue back, we find out that Israelis have been incrementally carrying out this plan from different directions to create an Israeli urban continuity around Jerusalem by expanding the illegal settlements. From the east, the plan aims to link Maale Adumim Block with the Mount of Scopus which widely penetrates the 1967 borders leading out to the Dead Sea and the Jordanian border. To implement this phase, E1 area located within the geographic vicinity of this block along the Jerusalem-Jericho road causes discontinuity between the settlement and Jerusalem because of its non-Jewish inhabitants, so that it must be totally confiscated. Therefore, this plan shapes a clear landscape that the “Greater Jerusalem” venture tends to confiscate as many dunams as possible within the depth of the Palestinian Territories.  

In this regard, Nadav Shragai addressed, “Israeli avoidance of creating settlement continuity between the Jerusalem area and the Maale Adumim area will inevitably give rise to another competing Palestinian continuity running north.” This area constitutes a strategic depth to make a defensible stronghold to overcome potential futuristic threats against the Israeli borders or the security interests in general.

In this context, this project won’t be carried out on the ground without leaving humanitarian consequences as the residents of E1 will be wiped out of their residential land according to this colonial plan which claims that the existence of the non-Jewish residents will be a demographic threat to the safety of this project in the foreseeable future. Thus, they are deemed to be deported by applying different measures either forcefully evacuating them or narrowing the path of life-lines through practicing oppressive policies that crackdown on the human activities at the residential shacks.

Currently, there are about 40 Bedouin families reside this area whose lifestyle is based on nomadic activities. They were originally displaced from the Negev Desert in the 1950s to resettle in E1 to end up encountering the same destiny now. For instance,  the Bedouin community of Arab Al-Jahalin has been demolished many times where the residents are left homeless. The iron dwellings don’t guarantee a permanent residency since those residents living along the Israeli highway aren’t recognized as legal dwellers according to the Israeli law that considers them refugees who fled their homes in the Negev Desert. Consequently, the Israeli authorities claim that those residents don’t have documented land claims over the area where they live. Furthermore, they illegally expand their shacks without a prior request from the Israeli civil administration office which is the only authorized aspect to issue permits to reside those people in the adjacent area of Ma’ali Adumim Settlement.   

Since the beginning of 2017, many structures have been demolished, and in a verdict, the Israeli high court decided that those people’s presence is illegal and suggested that they must be relocated to another area. The first proposal is to resettle them in Al-Ezariya village, but, there are no sufficient places to assimilate them. Moreover, Bedouins have a special lifestyle based on nomadic practices where they could graze their cattle which makes it very difficult for them to integrate into urbanized residential areas.

It’s worth mentioning the area where they reside is very marginalized lacks many basic needs like education and medical care. They depend on herding and earning incomes from their livestock because the development process is strictly watched out by the Israeli forces to prevent it; however, only international humanitarian organizations provide them with aid, like the solar energy panels had been donated to them but recently were confiscated.    

A further consequence of this project, it’ll be the main hurdle that divides the West Bank up into two parts where the geographical continuity among the Palestinian urban areas will be completely faded away. As a result, the dream of the Two-State Solution won’t take place according to what’s agreed upon in the Oslo Accords of 1993 which puts Israel into the cycle of international condemnation.

Taking a look insightfully at the international law, we find out that there is an international denouncement against the Israeli practices in the E1 area, and it considers it as a stark violation of the international law especially the Geneva Convention that prohibits the occupier from displacing the occupied residents or seizing their properties.

The bottom line is, the Israeli practices in the E1 area and the annexation plan as a whole leave us with two probing questions, how will the Israeli government come up with a solution to put an end to an imminent humanitarian disaster as a result of deporting about 1000 individuals of Bedouin community there? How will it encounter the status quo when the annexation plan totally comes into play which will deny more than 2 million people in the Palestinian Territories the right of freedom of movement from the south to the north and vice versa?

We leave these questions that pointedly give a realistic interpretation about the human rights situation and the main reason of instability in the Palestinian Territories to the International Community that considers the Israeli measures illegal to decide on.


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