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Conservation plan highlights Arabs’ fraught ties to Israel

An Israel Arab Beduin boy has a sticker that say "National Parks Authority ruins the Beduins legacy in the Galilee " during protest in Zubaydat, Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. A new plan to turn the 2,500-acre area into a wildlife corridor that has sparked rare protest from Bedouin in the northern Galilee region who were one of the few Palestinians to embrace early Zionist pioneers before 1948, and since served in the police and military often fighting against fellow Palestinians, Jordanians, Egyptians and Syrians. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) A half thorn Israeli flag blown by the wind in a cemetery for Arab Bedouins who fell in the service of the state of Israel, in a hillside that might soon be forbidden to Bedouins community that has grazed goats on it for generations near Zubaydat, in the Galilee region, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Plans to turn the 2,500-acre area into a wildlife corridor have sparked rare protest from Bedouin in the northern Galilee region. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) The forest area where Beduins has grazed goats for generations that might soon be forbidden for them near Rumihat in the Galilee region, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Plans to turn the 2,500-acre area into a wildlife corridor have sparked rare protest from Bedouin in the northern Galilee region. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) Ayoub Rumeihat visits in a cemetery for Arab Bedouins in a hillside near Rumihat that might soon be forbidden to his community that has grazed goats on it for generations in the Galilee region, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Plans to turn the 2,500-acre area into a wildlife corridor have sparked rare protest from Bedouin in the northern Galilee region. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) Ayoub Rumeihat drives his pickup truck towards a cemetery for Arab Bedouins who fell in the service of the state of Israel, in a hillside near Zubaydat where Beduins has grazed goats for generations that might soon be forbidden to his community in the Galilee region, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Plans to turn the 2,500-acre area into a wildlife corridor have sparked rare protest from Bedouin in the northern Galilee region. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) Ayoub Rumeihat take a moment after visiting in a cemetery for Arab Bedouins who fell in the service of the state of Israel, in a hillside near Zubaydat where Beduins has grazed goats for generations that might soon be forbidden to his community that has grazed goats on it for generations in the Galilee region, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Plans to turn the 2,500-acre area into a wildlife corridor have sparked rare protest from Bedouin in the northern Galilee region. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) Goats gaze on a hillside where Beduins have grazed their animals for generations near Rumihat in the Galilee region, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Plans to turn the 2,500-acre area into a wildlife corridor have sparked rare protest from Bedouin in the northern Galilee region who were one of the few Arabs embracing early Zionist pioneers before 1948, and since served in the police and military, and elebrated by the military for their knowledge of the land, they say the government now seeks to sever their ties to the same land. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)