Olive Trees, Lies, and Videotape
There has been a flurry of reports in the news lately about the supposed damaging of olive trees by, you guessed it, settlers.
The police have not found any solid evidence, but this hasn't stopped the media from throwing around accusations.
JoeSettler has an excellent post on this called Bubblegum, bullets, and branches. He explains things better than I could. (Hint - they have videotape of the Arabs cutting down the branches themselves.)
There has been a flurry of reports in the news lately about the supposed damaging of olive trees by, you guessed it, settlers.
The police have not found any solid evidence, but this hasn't stopped the media from throwing around accusations.
JoeSettler has an excellent post on this called Bubblegum, bullets, and branches. He explains things better than I could. (Hint - they have videotape of the Arabs cutting down the branches themselves.)
posted by westbankmama at 12:07 PM
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from what i recall last time this happened, the israelis were unjustly blamed for this, and the branches were purposely cut in a way that they'd be able to grow again, but that they'd appear damaged.
aarrgggh. i wish they'd just get a grip on reality already.
The problem is the media - they latch on to this to make headlines, and those who want to distract attention from the Kassam rockets falling on Sderot and Ashkelon are thrilled.
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