Jerusalem Post on supposed "Tree Cutting"

Once again, Joel, I am posting the Jerusalem Post article that covers
the same story as one you quoted from Ha'aretz. This is about
the supposed "settler" destruction of Balestinian trees. Just
as in the case with the Hevron shuk, the Post gives a more
truthful report than biased Ha'aretz.
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Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz on Thursday established a special team to
investigate claims by Palestinians that settlers intentionally uprooted
their olive trees in the northern West Bank.

The decision came following complaints by Palestinians reporting of
dozens of incidents in the past five years in which Israeli saboteurs
allegedly damaged their olive crops.

On Monday, Judea and Samaria Police began investigating claims that
Palestinians in the Nablus-area village of Burin hacked down their own
olive trees to collect compensation from Israel.

The investigation followed dozens of incidents over the past five years
in which Jewish saboteurs stole into Palestinians' orchards in
Nablus-area villages and uprooted or hacked down olive trees.

With the Palestinian economy still sluggish after five years of
fighting, many Palestinians increasingly rely on farming to earn daily
wages.
'Something is clearly suspicious in the way these trees were cut,' said
Supt. Shlomi Sagi, spokesman for the Judea and Samaria Police
Department, after police investigators responded to claims from the
village that settlers hacked down trees. 'We are investigating the
claims of both sides.'

Police have no evidence of foul play by either the settlers or the
Palestinians in this incident. However, several factors stumped
investigators, according to Sagi. Police wondered why the settlers
would trek to the far side of the orchard, the side nearest the
Palestinians, to chop down the trees. They also wondered why
chainsaw-wielding settlers would give the trees 'a grave pruning'
rather than cut through the tree trunks.

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