Settlers chop down Nablus olive grove on eve of harvest

[ProgressiveMuslim]

Published yesterday (updated) 28/09/2009 19:51
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Israeli settlers in the Nablus area
Nablus – Ma’an – Dozens of chainsaw-wielding Israeli settlers cut down more than 150 olive trees in to the northern West Bank village of Burin, south of Nablus on Monday.

The assault came a few days before Palestinian farmers throughout the country begin harvesting their olives.

According to Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian official in charge of monitoring settlement activity in the northern West Bank, dozens of Israelis from the settlement Yitzhar raided fields in the area of Khallat Siwar between the villages of Huwwara and Burin and cut down more than 150 olive trees using chainsaws.

Daghlas labeled the settlers’ attack as “criminal act” calling on human right groups to take action to stop Israeli settlers’ assaults against the Palestinians and their property.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=228238

[ProgressiveMuslim]

1. Those settlers sure do love the land.

Their actions are obscene.

Those who destroy olive trees should be deported. Anyone who loves that land should be able to agree upon that.

[IndianaGreen]

2. Right after Yom Kippur!

:puke:

[safeinOhio]

3. I think Israel wants to keep and expand settlements

so they can keep all those crazy settlers out of Israel.

[ProgressiveMuslim]

4. Or maybe those crazy settlers are tolerated because they are supported. No one stops them,

that's for damn sure.

[Violet_Crumble]

7. The Israeli govt definately supports the settlers...

There were a few good articles posted here a while back about how the government supports them. If I have time, I'll go back and dig them out and post links...

[ProgressiveMuslim]

10. Always interesting how they are presented as some sort of fringe element. nt

[Raster]

5. I just tried to recommend this thread. And then realized...you can't recommend ANYTHING that might

shine a negative light on Israel.

[LeftishBrit]

8. You can't recommend anything in this forum, whether it sheds a positive or negative light on Israel

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[LeftishBrit]

9. Disgusting