"It's a lot of land, but mostly worthless desert" - and yet, the israeli government insists on confiscating this land from the bedouin who live on it and giving it to jewish farmers on the condition that they keep bedouin off the land.

i'm not arguing for the elimination of israeli people. i said israel should stop being a zionist state. that means a state where all jews, and only jews, are allowed to immigrate, and where non-jews are treated like second class citizens.

the problem with splitting palestine into an israeli and palestinian state is that palestinians who were expelled from their homes in 1948 have a right to return to their homes, regardless of whether they're in the israeli or palestinian side of the border. 'giving' palestinians the negev isn't a solution, and would add to dispossession of the indigenous inhabitants of that area.