Settlers torch hundreds of Nablus olive trees
Ma’an – June 2, 2010
Nablus – Residents of the illegal Yitzhar settlement set fire to more than 100 dunums of Palestinian lands near Urif village, southwest of Nablus on Wednesday afternoon, Palestinian officials said.
Local official in charge of the settlements file in the northern West Bank Ghasan Daghlas said the fire was set in the Jabal Marwes area, the hill separating the villages of URif and Asira Al-Qaliya, into which Yitzhar’s “municipal area” extends.
“The settlers had set fire to the area, and it spread across a large swath of agricultural land,” Daghlas said.
When Palestinians saw the fire, dozens rushed to put it out, Daghlas continued, but said hundreds of almond and olive trees were destroyed.
“Clashes broke out between the Palestinians and the settlers who had lit the fire,” Daghas said, and Israeli forces used tear gas to disperse the fight.
The fields, village official Fawzi Shaehada said, belong to Mohammad Salamh A’mer As-Aafadi from Urif.
An Israeli military official said a fight broke out in a “disputed area” between what she estimated was 50 Palestinians and Yitzhar residents, where “mutual rock throwing” took place. She said Israeli border police dispersed the fight and noted no arrests.
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The ongoing sick, twisted, brutal perversions of Israel will no longer go unaccounted. Israelis cannot be seen as humane menbers of society anymore, they are psychotic and need treatment.
These sad and sorry cheap excuses of illegitmate jewish humans are on and always have been on death crusade since the days of Canaan. They have no legitmacy in this world, they are squatters on stolen land. There heinous belief that they are gods chosen people is nothing but primitive, ghetto, subhuman, uneducated kosher crap.
The only time Jews were ever the `chosen people´ was when Hitler made that choice. Funny to think that so called holocaust casualties have now adopted the same evil methods of brutality as their `chooser´ did in nazi Germany.
Be prepared Israel, you have been warned by Iran, Syria, Russia, Hezbollah, Hamas, Turkey, Venezuela, Ireland, Brazil and many more countries throughout the world. The summer of 2010 will be the beginning of new Middle East chapter, Israelis will be kissing the feet of Hamas and begging for forgiveness before this year is over.
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“The ongoing sick, twisted, brutal perversions of Israel will no longer go unaccounted. Israelis cannot be seen as humane members of society anymore, they are psychotic and need treatment”
I do hope the masses do not resort to the treatment the Israeli have meted on Palestine’s natives, or those the Nazis meted on the Jews and Homosexuals.
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I can’t believe this. Those trees probably go back to the very earliest of times, they take so very very long to bear fruit.
How can anyone not look at this and not absolutely understand that ZIONISM must be eradicated, as in TOTALLY ELIMINATED BY WHATEVER MEANS, or this earth will burn like these olive trees burned.
If there is a zionist out there that can justify turning the earth into a charnel house for their goddamned talmudic bullshit, please come forth and enlighten us about how the destruction of OLIVE TREES that lived for centuries perhaps, had to be burnt and destroyed. For what reason other than revenge? For what?
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Once the trees are gone and Palestinians cannot tend their fields in successive years, the Israelis can declare the land as abandoned and take it away. Destroying agriculture is the first step in stealing land.
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It’s Satanic and bad for the enviorment
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