ABSTRACT
This chapter reveals that the Bedouin invoked various forms of non-cooperation lobbying action, political and cultural resistance, to reduce the impact of military rule on their everyday life. Israel ruled the Palestinian Arab minority by applying a system of 'military rule'. According to British archival reports, the military rule in the Naqab received support from the army, which assumed responsibility for operating in the desert and trying to control the daily lives of the Bedouin: 'In the Negev, frontier and internal security are maintained exclusively by the army'. According to letters from the United Nations, Israel expelled between 7,000 and 8,000 Bedouin from the 'Azazma sub-tribes across the international border into Egyptian territory'. Most of the remnant Bedouin were not allowed to return to their native land, even to recover their possessions, they sought to obtain their rights as refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) through using different forms of complaint and legal claims.
