Re: Israeli forces uproot 120 olive trees near Salfit

Articles like this one make me so Damn mad that I can't think
straight. Why are we so equally capable of deep love and cruel
hatred, all within the same head? I proclaim myself to be a Lover,
not a Killer, but seeing in my minds eye these soldiers destroying the
lives of innocent people just in order to push their little Israeli
Empire a few acres further into occupied lands, causes me to lash out
and drive them back into the bowels of Hades. Damn them. I know
these soldiers have mothers and fathers and wives and children whom
they love beyond belief. Why do humans turn off this love at their
own door, and turn on hatred when they step outside?
Tell me where Almighty God is hiding?
Carl Jarvis

On 4/2/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> I remember all the years that Jews contributed money to Hadassah so that
> trees could be planted in Israel. Americans were told that all of Palestine
> was a desert and that we needed to help the Israelis turn this uninhabited
> desert into a fertile land.
> Miriam
>
> Israeli forces uproot 120 olive trees near Salfit
>
> Published today (updated) 02/04/2015 14:54
>
> Image removed by sender.
>
> A Palestinian woman cries after seeing the damage from settlers to her
> olive trees in the village of Burin near Nablus on Jan. 7, 2010.
> (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
>
>
>
> SALFIT (Ma'an) -- Israeli authorities on Thursday destroyed around 120
> olive
> trees belonging to Palestinian farmers in the northern West Bank, bringing
> the total number of olive trees destroyed across the region in the last
> month to nearly 2,000.
>
> Farmers living in the village of Wadi Qana near Salfit told Ma'an that
> Israeli military vehicles accompanied by vehicles belonging to the nature
> and environmental protection agency of the Israeli civil administration
> raided the area Thursday morning.
>
> The officers uprooted and confiscated the olive trees during the raid.
>
> According to the local farmers, the trees belonged to Hassan Mustafa
> Mansour, Ahmad Khalil Mansour, and Qassem Nasser Mansour.
>
> Israeli forces had delivered orders to the farmers to evacuate their lands
> more than three weeks ago, the farmers said.
>
> Wadi Qana is located inside an Israeli settlement bloc and is thus
> surrounded on all sides by Jewish-only settlements. it is located in an
> area
> in the "seam zone," cut off from all other Palestinian villages in the
> region.
>
> The attack follows the uprooting of 1,200 trees in al-Shuyukh near Hebron
> on
> March 29, 300 trees in Majdal Bani Fadil near Nablus on March 18, 300 trees
> in Salem near Nablus on March 9, as well as a number of other smaller
> incidents.
>
> Israeli authorities often rezone Palestinian agricultural areas near Jewish
> settlements as security zones or state land, thus providing a justification
> for the destruction of olive trees planted in the area.
>
> Attacks on olive trees are a key way that Palestinians are forced out of
> their homes and their lands confiscated for settlement construction, as the
> loss of a year's crop can signal destitution for many.
>
> If attacks are frequent enough that Palestinians can no longer access their
> trees regularly, meanwhile, settlers can argue that Palestinians have
> abandoned the properties and thus take possession of them as well.
>
> Since 1967, approximately 800,000 olive trees have been uprooted in the
> occupied West Bank, according to a joint report by the Palestinian
> Authority
> and the Applied Research Institute Jerusalem.
>
> The olive industry supports the livelihoods of roughly 80,000 families in
> the occupied West Bank.
>
>
>
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