Olive Trees

The uprooting of the olive trees and destruction of the land of Abu Nidal in the village of Al-Walaja. This heartbreaking experience was exacerbated by the fact that the apartheid wall being built will encircle the village on all sides cutting all the villagers from their agricultural lands. 30 homes have been demolished and others are slated for demolition. The village is basically being ethnically cleansed methodically. It started in 1948 when villagers were removed from half their lands and continued after 1967 as the Zionist movement coveted and went after the rest of their lands.

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• Al-Walaja
• Palestine
• Israel
• Occupatioon
• apartheid
• walls
• olive trees
• agricultural lands
• destruction
• war crimes
• crimes against humanity
• environmental damage

[justicewheels]

The Zionist response: build walls, live in a large ghetto, and claim that the whole world is anti-semetic because, well, they hate us for no apparent reason.Looking in the mirror and self-introspection is not allowed. In doing so, I believe Zionists are worst enemies of Judaism and Jews anywhere: leading to self-destruction will in denial of obvious reality.

[justicewheels]

I am always surprised at how Zionists try to deflect attention and distort reality in responding to obvious truths. The whole world simply is not buying the fantasy of a 'land without a people for a people without a land' anymore. Seven million refugees and displaced people simply will not disappear.

[012angels]

@012angels I am certainly not saying people deserve hardship & pain or scorn. Things do change & the past is always nicer to us = (antiques roadshow) I grew up on a farm with my poor father providing us with t hings children today can only dream about having (our own little woods, sandbox, pets, homemade clothes, homegrown good food & wonderful house - still solid - we never worried for safety, or shelter - we knew he would protect us ) & he felt he didn't give us enough. Today - a dream.

[012angels]

@nooralayam They didn't survive so well, they had a high rate of child mortality, & as for 'hundreds of years' that is open to question as well - actually the hundreds of years brings another culture - not precedent to the people we call 'natives'. The Anasasi were not same culture, they were different & annihilated.  I think people who won't allow archeologists into their sites, saying 'word of mouth' is valid history - are not interested in history. Fantasy for adverts = big sell = polit

[nooralayam]

@012angels i wonder how they survived for hundreds of years then and reproducing... if they had so little food they should have been extinct long before the europeans came, no?

[012angels]

@nooralayam Soil in the Southwest & also comparatively speaking the east coast (to the midwest) is very very poor. The reason natives were able to stay in these areas throughout the year is because of the climate. The midwest has a very extreme climate - tribes were migratory.

Recently I listened to a native on a public radio station claiming Indians didn't rape women - "that was what the Europeans brought" in response to the question "why is there such a hi incid of rape on Res"

[012angels]

@nooralayam Spanish brought horses to America, before that Indians didn't have horses either. They also were immigrants, displacing earlier cultures.

[012angels]

@nooralayam Natives did not have cattle,(& certainly didn't have farms)_ and only in the Southwest & east coast did they have corn, a very very minimal part of the US. Which they raised by planting with sticks.You should learn what you are talking about before you make false statements. I am sorry for what is happening in Palestine, which is why I am on this board -

[nooralayam]

@012angels i am from that area, and i can assure u this video is no fantasy but is reality. that is why this video upsets me, because it reminds me of what happened to my homeland which is occupied and destroyed by Israel :( yeah it says alot about the Ego of those Israeli soldiers that hides behind the armour. Apparently those poor boys are sexually frustrated and hence the guns they hold..