This week marked the start of the annual Palestinian olive harvest, an ancient tradition on which 80,000 families still rely for their livelihoods. Yet these families face growing economic hardship due to Israeli land confiscations, access restrictions, settler attacks, and not least the widespread uprooting, destruction and theft of the trees themselves.
The infographic ‘Uprooted’ focuses on the staggering fact that Israeli authorities have uprooted over 800,000 Palestinian olive trees since 1967, the equivalent to razing all of the 24,000 trees in New York’s central park 33 times.
This graphic is being released as part of Visualizing Palestine’s 2013 crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. We would love if you could share the campaign URL with the graphic and through social media.
This poster is a great way to visualize this crime against humanity.
>> Since 1967 Israel has razed over 800,000 Palestinian olive trees
Just one small way the supremacist “Jewish State” makes the desert bloom.
Anyway, it’s not possible that supremacist Jews razed over 800,000 olive trees because, according to Zio-supremacist “history”, Palestine was a land without a people or trees for a people without a land or trees.
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I often think about this vicious and criminal apartheid strategy of the Israeli government, illegal settlers…wiping out an agricultural revenue source for Palestinians. An ancient means of making a living. Like the U.S. pigs who wiped out the buffalo so that the source of food, clothing and a way of life for native Americans was wiped out. Crimes against humanity…both.
My dear friend Christian Peace Maker Team Member Peggy Gish has been with the Palestinians as they harvested what is left of their olive trees harvest. At one point when illegal settlers were viciously attacking the harvest Israeli soldiers came in and told Peggy and her Palestinian friends to halt the harvest. Peggy who is mild mannered went up to the Israeli soldiers and told them that they needed to join the harvest and help not try to stop it. She backed the soldiers down.
Have read that the Israeli government, military and illegal settlers have actually dug up some of the more ancient olive trees and replanted them in areas of land that they have stolen. Despicable!
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One would like to see this story on the front page of The New York Times. But I am not counting on it.