Re: Jerusalem Post on supposed "Tree Cutting"




On 12/30/05 9:26 AM, in article
1135945568.337232.326720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "YM"
<bar_kochba132@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

That's fine. I sent the Ha'aretz piece because it was the first one I reed.
Do notice the line about "dozens of incidents over the past five years in
which Jewish saboteurs stole into Palestinian's orchards in Nablus-area
villages and uprooted and hacked down olive trees."

J

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