Occupied Olive Tree Territories
saleh on January 25th, 2006A interesting blog entry on a a culinary weblog, which examines the olive tree as a symbol of Palestinian identity in response to a short documentary by Osama Qashoo, titled My Dear Olive Tree.
‘The eighteen-minute documentary shifts swiftly from registering the small community’s warm familial bond with the land, to an extremely tense situation in which Israeli Army bulldozers move in to uproot the olive trees. The film shows Palestinian women in a state of utter hysteria as they are forced to bear witness to an act nothing short of an amputation.’
Full entry at culiblog.org
