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Resistance Is Fertile: Palestine’s Eco-War
James Brownsell – Al Jazeeera, 7 Nov 2011

More than half a million olive trees have been uprooted or destroyed by Israeli civil and military forces in the past 10 years, a tree renowned for its symbolism since before the time of Noah. At 7 am on Tuesday, February 22, Abu Latifa got a phone call that Israeli troops were on his family’s farmland taking chainsaws to the trees. When he arrived at the field that his family had cultivated for the past 40 years, soldiers had cut down 150 trees and were poisoning the roots. “Olive trees are holy; what faith, what religion allows this to happen? How does any human being have the heart to kill trees like this?”

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