An article …
saleh on November 14th, 2004The following excerpt appeared in Nottingham Alternative News
“For the Israeli state, any element of Palestinian self-sufficiency is a threat, since it represents reserves of energy and strength that can help maintain the resistance. For this reason, trees are bulldozed and farmers collecting the olive harvest are beaten, harassed and shot at.
If settler thugs manage to stop the olive harvest … then the Israeli state can seize the land, under a law originally brought in by the British that allows the government to take unused land. For this reason, the battle over olives and the olive harvest has taken on great significance.”
