Settling into humiliation (Soldiers and settlers hand in hand)

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
JERUSALEM (IPS) 5 June -- For 61-year-old Abd al-Rahim Bisharat, life in the Bedouin community of al- Hadidiya in the northern Jordan Valley is anything but easy. "The problem is not only poverty, but the degree of how (the Israelis) treat us as humans, our rights as humans," Bisharat told IPS over the phone from his home, with the sound of roosters crowing in the background ... The most troubling aspect of daily life, however, involves Israeli settlers and the Israeli soldiers and police that protect them, he said. ""As we know, the police all around the world is the body that protects the law, but here, the settlers, all they have to do is to call the police when they want to attack one of us," Bisharat said. "The settler only has to make a phone call and then do nothing but stand there and watch the humiliation of the Palestinian, while the police and the military are beating the Palestinian up. All of our trouble comes from the settler."
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