Settlers uproot hundreds of trees near Ramallah

[Jefferson23]

RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers uprooted over 600 recently planted olive and almond saplings in a village north of Ramallah on Wednesday, a Palestinian Authority official said.

Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that a group of settlers from Givat Ariel and Maale Levona uprooted newly planted saplings in the village of Sinjil.

Daghlas said Israeli police opened an investigation into the incident.

The saplings were planted by the International Committee of the Red Cross to support Palestinian farmers, Daghlas said.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=667332

[Deep13]

1. a typical part of ethnic cleansing nt

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

4. Yep. Destroy everything you can of the other group so yours can take over.

[elleng]

2. Oh NO!

[loudsue]

3. Now that is just shitty.

A really right wing type of thing to do.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. And yet America's politicians won't do the right thing.

If this nonsense was happening in Alabama or Michigan the Feds would be all over it. Understandably the Feds can't be all over Tel Aviv, but our politicians could speak out against it and shut off the $$aid flow to Israel.

[Jefferson23]

6. Settlers uproot more than 1000 olive saplings near Ramallah

NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Jewish settlers on Sunday vandalized private Palestinian agricultural lands north of Ramallah and uprooted more than 1000 olive trees and newly planted saplings, a Palestinian official said.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement-related activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that a group of settlers from the Shilo settlement uprooted more than 1000 saplings in the village of Sinjil north of Ramallah.

He highlighted that the attack was the second of its kind in a week.

The trees were planted three years ago as part of a project funded by the International Red Cross Committee.

In 2012, there were 353 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Settler regularly target Palestinian olive trees for attack.

Over 90 percent of investigations into settler violence by Israeli police fail to lead to an indictment.

in full: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=670071

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

7. I guess that it must be

part of their cultural identity now since they seem to do it so often to the Palestinians.



Well, I'm always hearing how the Palestinians are all terrorists and don't love or take care of their kids, but I don't see them attacking in numbers, destroying Israeli olive groves, while the IDF looks on.

[Jefferson23]

8. Their contempt for the Palestinians is well documented.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

9. That is not to say that any act of terrorism is acceptable.

I just find it baffling that some only believe that the Palestinians have terrorists in their midst while anything that the Israelis do is somehow above it.