Settlers chop down Nablus olive grove on eve of harvest

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:50 PM EDT

Article Source: Ma'an News Agency

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Nablus – Ma'an – Dozens of chainsaw-wielding Israeli settlers cut down more than 150 olive trees in to the northern West Bank village of Burin, south of Nablus on Monday.

The assault came a few days before Palestinian farmers throughout the country begin harvesting their olives.

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Fulcrum

Boycott all Israeli made goods now.

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#1 - Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:02 PM EDT

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Chuan Xihu

When you make statements like this with out any prooof of tentiure it is asking for someone to disown you. The reason for the cutting which they do evey thrird year like the vine growers in Napa California. It shows you are tring to make Israel out to be bad people. Israel has given the world new ways of growing and technology in many areas. Boycott or do u mean to starve your own family just so u can spot of with a loose tonuge which sinks ships. You need to go back to school and learn Hortaculchering or tree farming. You can call and talk to Liyel Tunner family Yakima, Wa. they have been growing for125 years. chuan

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#2 - Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:21 PM EDT

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Fulcrum

Chuan do you know anything about olive trees ? did you read the article ?

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#2.1 - Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:59 PM EDT

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Isabella-37

"The reason for the cutting which they do evey thrird year like the vine growers in Napa California"

Ahahaha @ chopping down olive trees to help them grow. Now that's a first. Even more ludicrous is saying the settlers cut down the Palestinian olive trees to help the Palestinians. It can take an olive tree anywhere from 5-20 years or more to grow from a seedling to being able to produce olives. These trees live to be hundreds of years old, some as old as 500 years. That's why it's criminal that these settler terrorists cut down or burn these trees, many of them ancient. Good grief, the longer I am on this site, the sillier the comments get.

"You need to go back to school and learn Hortaculchering or tree farming."

They did not remove the vigourous shoots or suckers as they are called, they cut the trees down, not prune them. Take your own advice.

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3 votes

#2.2 - Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:53 AM EDT

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millerb-1023348

After murder and mayhem , I have to say that killing those trees is a crime against the soul. Horrible crime. Makes me so sad.

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#2.3 - Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:11 AM EDT

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