The Merriam Webster dictionary defines ethnic cleansing as the expulsion, imprisonment, or killing of an ethnic minority by a dominant majority in order to achieve ethnic homogeneity - just how does that square with Israel rehousing Bedouin currently living illegally on state land in unrecognized villages with no facilities and placing them in recognized villages with full facilities.
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