CiF Watch Exposes the Tooth Fairy of the Naqab
Google map showing 15 minute drive from Qasr al-Sir to Dimona, courtesy of CiF Watch
CiF Watch blog (which monitors the Comment Is Free section of the Guardian) has ripped apart Ben White‘s Dec. 3 article about Israel’s allegedly racist, discriminatory policy of shuttering mother-baby clinics in unrecognized Bedouin villages.
In addition to pointing out that White ignores his own source (Ynet) which show that closures have also hit Jewish communities in the south, CiF Watch’s blogger concludes:
Imagine my surprise (I joke) when I found that once again, trading on the ignorance of the average CiF reader, and their laziness when it comes to actually researching the facts instead of uncritically accepting the fairy-stories the stable of Israel-hating regulars (and this tooth-fairy in particular) feed them, it turns out that the “unrecognized village” is, as I demonstrated above, but a 15 minute trip on a paved highway (#25) to the center of Dimona. . . .
Ok – so it looks like despite the tooth fairy’s article, the mother in the “Arab Bedouin unrecognized village of Qasr el-Ser in the Naqab (Negev)” could quite easily get the same medical care as the non-Bedouin
(You must read the CiF Watch post for an explanation of the Tooth Fairy reference.)
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