negev

The Negev is a broadly similar climate (though much lower in elevation) as southern New Mexico and northern Israel is very similar to northern New Mexico.

As far as international law is concerned, Israel developing the Negev is no different than, say, Poland building in Gdansk or the United States building in Hawaii.

The US has an early warning radar in the Negev not too far from Gaza aimed at Iran.

Jews got more land after partitioning but a huge chunk of that was the Negev desert.

And even the most anti air protected place on earth - Negev plant near Dimona city got hit with a warning shot.

If the Israelis can grow tomatoes in the Negev desert, I don't see why the North Africans can't do the same.

Ask any settler out in the Negev and I think you'll hear a different view.

It was the iranians that called for the Negev summit?

Israel could not spot hundreds of Hamas terrorists rehearsing the 7 of October attacks, and using cell phones for weeks, 20 miles from their Urim base in the Negev desert.

The Negev Desert, by contrast, has been Israeli territory since the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and was part of the Jewish state in the 1947 Partition Plan.

As an Israeli, I've always heard the Iron Dome rockets are stupid expensive to fire, so the IDF really only wants to fire them during scenarios that are high risk -- e.g., a rocket fired toward the Negev is much lower priority than a rocket fired at Tel Aviv.

The closest thing that the Arabs at the time would group them would be as Greater Syria or AlShaam (or Ashshaam the way the locals say it), which includes Syria, Lebanon, and most of Jordan - but does not include the Negev desert.

It's really hard to describe "11 points in the Negev" as peaceful.

The phrase "colonize the Negev Desert" is incorrect in this context.

Strictly speaking, they are all "civilians", since Gaza is not a state (it is just the coastline of the western Negev - a geographic region of Israel) and does not have regular armed forces.

And, if we have to use force-not to dispossess the Arabs of the Negev and Transjordan, but to guarantee our own right to settle in those places- then we have force at our disposal.” “It is very possible that the Arabs of the neighboring countries will come to their aid against us.

(They should have set up a humanitarian corridor that evacuates innocents to well-provisioned aid stations and temporary residences in the Negev.) And, ultimately, if you're killing more women and children than enemy combatants, I think you're doing it very wrong.