WASHINGTON (Dispatches) -- Nearly 3,000 Americans has signed a petition, demanding an immediate end to the occupying regime of Israel’s ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian citizens in the Naqab desert. The rocky desert, which makes up almost half of the historical Palestine, has been the scene of growing tensions since January 10, when diggers and bulldozers of the so-called Jewish National Fund (JNF) began flattening some Bedouin farming lands as part of a controversial tree planting program or afforestation. The much-condemned move triggered large protest rallies, which met with brutal crackdown and mass arrests by Israeli forces.