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Bedouin settlements pepper the Palestinian countryside.
While hardscrabble communities still eke out an off-the-grid existence, their way of
life is dying. Like nomads everywhere, Bedouins are being driven into a world where
people have addresses and send their children to school to learn the prevailing values
of that society. With the political tensions between Israel and Palestine (the walls, set-
tlements, freeway construction, and aggressive water politics), I was told that Bedouin
camps are now less mobile and stick to land near roads where they can tap into water
mains. After so many centuries, more and more Bedouin families are finally settling down
in towns and villages. As their ability to roam free is disappearing and their access to wa-
ter is becoming more limited, they are, by necessity, adapting.
