inter-related land laws which (especially when used in conjunction with the already existing Defence (Emergency) Regulations (1945) were designed to sanitize and "legalize" its massive land theft of that period. That land theft speeded UP the process of disinheritinq the Palestinians both spiritually and materially. Almost over niqht, it urbanized a peasant society and converted its men into a day labourer, unskilled workforce performing what is referred to in common Hebrew parlance as "Arab work". 7. Today, the land laws (mentioned above) and other practices are beinq used to effect the last staqes of Judaization (an Israeli term) of Palestinian land inside the "green line" (the 1948-1949 borders). There are about 60 villages in the Galilee and Little Triangle and over 20 in the Naqad (Negav desert) which have never been given official recognition as existing, despite the fact that most have been in their present locations since before the emergence of the State - some for hundreds of years. Because they are unrecognized, they receive no services from the State, notwithstanding the fact that the villagers pay taxes like everyone else. These villages, almost uniformly, have no water, no electricity, no access roads, no health services, no telephones, no sewerage systems, no kinderqartens or schools. (To some extent, many recoqnized villaqes also suffer from this kind of deprivation). 8. In 1986, a qovernment commission (Markowitz) issued a report essentially recommendinq that these villaqes be razed and that their inhabitants be relocated. The lands of these villaqes would then become part of the patrimony (in perpetuity) of the "Jewish people". This process of contemporary villaqe erasure has already been put into motion. In one case, the only thing that stood between the qovernment bulldozers and the people's homes were the barricades erected by the villaqers and their own bodies. The 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the historical and ongoing land theft and dispossession of Palestinians by the Israeli government, specifically highlighting the lack of recognition and services provided to unrecognized villages. The text also touches on the erasure of these villages and the relocation of their inhabitants. The main theme is the human impact of political decisions on marginalized communities, which is a social and humanitarian issue.

**Category**
Humanitarian aid and relief, Education