U.S. demands aid be used to boost Bedouin and Druze

[Violet_Crumble]

The U.S. government is demanding that Israel uses the financial aid package it is set to receive from the United States to help the Bedouin in the south of the country and the Druze in the north. Senior Israeli officials involved in the aid talks said Israel has agreed to the demand.

The aid package is to go toward developing the Galilee and the Negev.

"America is not the Jewish Agency nor the Jewish National Fund, and considers it important that the aid serves all sectors of the Israeli population," one of the officials said.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/600604.html

[The Sushi Bandit]

1. Bedouin and Druze? are they a night club act??

they do magic or something in Vegas. Right?

[ck4829]

2. No, they're the Ethnic groups in Israel that you never hear about.

:)