Settlers: Arabs, leftists staged 'price tag' act

[shira]

Settlers: Arabs, leftists staged 'price tag' act
Palestinians, leftwing activists documented while sawing trees in bid to accuse settlers

Arabs and leftist activists staged an attack on Palestinian fields in a bid to accuse settlers of vandalism, an organization that claims to have documented the incident says.

were made Saturday by Tazpit Unit members, an organization identified with the settlers which documents news events in the territories. Tazpit says that these staged attacks were meant to falsely accuse settlers of attacking Palestinian land.

The photos, taken by members of the Tazpit Unit, were shot on Palestinian land Friday, near the Neveh Tzuf settlement. The images allegedly show Palestinians and left-wing activists cutting down Palestinian olive trees using an electric saw. Many so-called "Price Tag' acts targeting Palestinians were recorded in the last few weeks, and the settlers now claim they were staged by the Palestinians themselves and intended to harm the settlers' image.

Tazpit photographer Ehud Amiton, who documented the vandalism act on Friday, says that this is exactly what can be seen in his images.

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3976976,00.html

[hayu_lol]

1. Looks like a non-story...

more like tree-trimming with the neat stacks of limbs on the ground. Commenters appear to think this way in any case.

[shira]

2. Appears that way, doesn't it? But then there's this from this week...

http://uruknet.com/?p=m71082&hd=&size=1&l=e

The claim there is that settlers cut down olive trees, but look at the supposed damage. They're branches and are certainly not wide enough to be olive tree trunks. Looks like a routine pruning job, not damage or destruction to olive trees.

Reminds me of past claims that religious settlers cutting down trees on the Sabbath. First, it's the Sabbath and any work like that is forbidden to orthodox Jews and second, the trees are fruit-bearing and it's prohibited by Jewish law to cut them down too.

[shira]

3. Take another look at this photo from the OP....

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/App/Thumbnails/CdaThumbnails_OpenWin/1,9788,L-2835481-2835482,00.html?CapField=article_images.name&TabSelect=article_images,images&WhereCls=article_images.image_id=2835482%20and%20article_images.article_id=3976976%20and%20article_images.image_id=images.id&DescField=images.english_credits

That's not pruning.

[Jim Sagle]

4. Yeah, but who the hell cares?

If ya can't blame it on duh jooooooz then it jest ain't noooooooz.