THEY STOLE OUR LAND, OUR WATER, NOW THEY HUMILIATE US BY TRANSPLANTING OUR OLIVE TREES IN ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS

August 15, 2012 at 08:09 (Chutzpah, Corrupt Politics, Ethnic Cleansing, Hasbara, Illegal Settlements, Israel, Occupation, Palestine, zionist harassment)

Their removal and transplanting are part of the “banal” humiliation of Palestinians.
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Ancient olive trees, stolen from Palestinian lands, now decorate Israeli settlement

by Philip Weiss 
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olive tree
Olive tree, said to be several hundred years old, transplanted to Israeli settlement 
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A week or so back I toured the sprawling Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim with Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. And he pointed out several ancient olive trees that he said had been taken by Israelis from Palestinian lands and transplanted to this new “Israeli” city inside occupied Palestine.

In this video below, Halper points out several olive trees, some over 400 years, that he believes were stolen from Palestinians. The trees would never grow here ordinarily. And he says that in other cases Israeli soldiers who have removed the trees from Palestinian villages have sold the trees to the nouveau riche in north Tel Aviv. 

These trees were in Palestinian families for 400 years, Halper says, and provided generations with sustenance. Their removal and transplanting are part of the “banal” humiliation of Palestinians.

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6 Comments

  1. Freemanontheland said,

    August 15, 2012 at 19:31

    Fill these trees with your energy. They are still yours no matter where they are. Stolen goods burn a hole in the soul of the stealer. You can see the increasing detrimental effect on your oppressors every day. Never forget that. The trees will be yours again one day.

  2. The Progressive Mind » THEY STOLE OUR LAND, OUR WATER, NOW THEY HUMILIATE US BY TRANSPLANTING OUR OLIVE TREES IN ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS « Desertpeace said,

    August 15, 2012 at 19:43

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  3. Blake said,

    August 15, 2012 at 20:09

    With American backing they will never stop

  4. Paul McConnell said,

    August 16, 2012 at 05:22

    The lazy land thieves that are the Israelis could not make a jar of olive oilo from an acre of olive trees.They do not belong in the middle east.

  5. howardtlewisiiii said,

    August 16, 2012 at 21:18

    Solomon would flatten the Knesset.

  6. Jenifer Flintoft said,

    August 17, 2012 at 00:36

    1. They tear down our vines & our sweet-fruiting fig trees
    They root up our olive trees & take them away
    Our lemons & pomegranates are all stolen from us
    We protest, but they listen to nothing we say.
    But we exist
    To exist is to resist
    And we exist.

    The 1st verse of a song I wrote entitled ‘We Are Palestine’.