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Destroying and stealing Palestinians lands, crops and trees is nothing new to Israel occupation and the Jewish colonizers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
When I read today that settlers uprooted 300 Palestinian olive trees and replanted them in their outpost (Palestinian stolen land) I was not surprised (story below), but reminded me of the following video clip, which is AGAIN, not of the type that you might ever see on your 'late news show'.
Israel destroys trees in Ertas village:
by yoyacov@gmail.com (Via: PalCast Video)
Israeli soldiers destroy Palestinian fruit trees in Ertas village near Bethlehem to make way for the sewage facilities of a nearby illegal Israeli settlement. Despite the Palestinians inviting the soldiers for tea, their trees, from which they earn their living, are uprooted the next morning.
And from today's Haaretz news:
A Civil Administration inquiry has found that residents of the West Bank settlement outpost of Adei Ad uprooted 300 olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers about a week ago and replanted about half of them in the outpost, according to a source in the Civil Administration.
The source said the settlers planted some of the uprooted trees along the outpost's access road and some inside the community, although the regional council says the orchard had been worked by Jews for years.
"An investigation was carried out, and the Adei Ad residents' claim that the trees belong to them was refuted," the source said. "What they did was illegal."
Haaretz has learned that the Civil Administration asked Adei Ad residents to replant the trees in their original locations. The Civil Administration source said Thursday that if this instruction is not carried out by next week, "the Civil Administration will do this itself."
Dozens of mature olive trees bearing signs of having been uprooted were planted in Adei Ad, located near the settlement of Shvut Rachel.Pinchas Wallerstein, chair of the Benjamin Regional Council, said the trees are from an olive orchard that "has been worked for years by employees and relatives of the recently deceased Yossi Schoker." Since the orchard did not bear fruit this year, he said, it was decided to uproot and replant it.
"Residents of Adei Ad asked for and received permission to use the uprooted tree to landscape their community. Any other version is utter nonsense," said Wallerstein. "That orchard was worked by Jews for years. Olives from that orchard were in last year's Olive Festival with Civil Administration permission, and the military prohibited Palestinians from coming close to that land, because they knew that Jews worked it."
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It is sad when Israeli lies are accepted as the truth. And the major powers accept these lies as the truth.
Therein lies the problem.
Getting rid of Bush won't solve it because the Democrats still cowtow to AIPAC.
Hamas isn't the problem, Israel and the US are.
And the US wonders why the Muslem worlds hates them. DUH!
Democracy is the US cry, but only on their terms.
They want their cake and eat it too.
But what if a country wants to bake a different cake that they don't like?
I'll eat it and make up my own decicion.
It might taste better!
Democracy over here has become fascism. Support the big companies.
Bottom line is the creed of big business.
The individual doesn't excist anymore.
I will send you a link to support the destruction of our economy.
Thats really so sad,really so sad when I see these videos while I am watching the news of Hamas & Fateh !!
Its so sad when I heared that guy in the video said the he believe in peace and then watching whats the real peace at the end of the video..
Its really so sad !!
Two things…the first is that the music sounds just like israeli music..weird.
The second is that the man is talking about apricot trees in the video and the article from haaretz is talking about olive trees. Is this perhaps another incident??
orianna,
Yes, they are two different incidents.
As for the music, I wont be surprised if the producer of this short video clip is Jewish. In fact there are a lot of Israelis and Jewish people among ISM's beside the the Israeli human rights organizations and anti-Zionist, etc. In other words, its not weird if the music sounds Israeli.
I'm the person who made this movie and i'm jewish-israeli. me and my israeli friends are going a lot to help our palestinian brothers and to fight against the racial acts of the israeli goverment. this song is israeli, an old jewish plea prayer that cry and ask god to hear our crying voice, save us from the plight that fall on our heads etc. the combination between this jewish prayer and the israeli buldoser uprooting the orchade effect the people in israel very strong and i'll hope it will help to bring back the land to this family.
you can find more actions in my youtube channel:
http://uk.youtube.com/user/yoyacov
yossi yacov,
Thank you and all your friends for all what you are doing.
Hello yossi
i am aquiring about the song's name and the band
thank you kindly
i would like to acquire about the song and the band that plays in this particular video
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