Israeli premier Naftali Bennett has admitted that his government failed to face the Palestinian Bedouin population in the Negev in recent events threatening to use more repressive measures against them.
In press remarks on Friday Bennett said that his government is unable to control the Arab citizens in the Negev and threatened to build an iron wall separating them from Israel.
He claimed that Israel had largely lost the Negev in the last 20 years due to the stupidity of the successive governments.
He also confessed to giving orders to turn several areas in the Negev where Bedouins live into shrubland despite local opposition and to sending hundreds of police forces to quell their protests recently.
He said that his government would have to build an iron wall if it failed to extend its control over the population there describing their presence as “a real threat to Israel.”
