Do Trees Have Nationality?
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support for this project | For information about the destruction of olive trees in Palestine and ways to become involved:
Jewish Voice For Peace
Jewish Voice For Peace, Bay Area Chapter
Botanical and Historical Information
“The Olive Tree in Palestine: characteristics and stories,”
Toine Van Teeffelen,
Palestine-Family.net
, May 19, 2006
“The Palestinian Olive Oil Industry,”
Basem Khoury,
This Week in Palestine,
October 2005
“Olive trees in Palestine: The story of a drop,”
Hitham I. Kayali,
The Institute for Middle East Understanding,
originally published in
This Week in Palestine
, Nov. 4, 2007.
“Olive,”
Wikipedia
Fair Trade Olive Tree Products and Producers in Palestine
Canaan Fair Trade, Delicacies from Palestine
Videos
“Palestinians' Olive Trees Destroyed,”
Israel Social TV
"Palestine my dear olive tree"
( 1 of 3), Witness Studio, Al Jezeera
B’Tselem: Testimony and Reaction to Destruction of Olive Grove
Where to Buy Palestinian Olive Oil
Zatoun
Rebuilding Alliance
At your local neighborhood markets
Articles about olive tree destruction in Palestine
“A harvest of tears: Palestinian agriculture continues to suffer as a result of ruthless Israeli policies,”
Dr. Hanan Chehata,
Middle East Monitor
, Wednesday, 19 October 2011
“Army Orders Farmers To Uproot 1400 Olive Trees In Salfit,”
by William Temple,
IMEMC News
, Wednesday May 2, 2012
“Destroying Palestinian Olive Trees,"
César Chelala
,
The Globalist
, November 13, 2010
“Israel's Civil Administration orders Palestinians to uproot 1,000 young olive trees in nature reserve,”
Zafrir Rinat
,
Ha'aretz
, May 1, 2012
“It's not the olive trees,”
By
Amira Hass
|
Ha’aretz
, Jan.11, 2006
“List of incidents in which damage was caused to Palestinian olive trees or property,”
B’Tselem
, October 28, 2010
“Major olive producing village ordered to uproot 1,400 trees by May 1,”
Allison Deger
,
Mondoweiss
, April 28, 2012
“Resistance is fertile: Palestine's eco-war,”
James Brownsell
,
Al Jazeera
, Nov. 1, 2011
“Rights group: 69 cases of Palestinian olive trees destroyed, but no prosecutions,”
Chaim Levinson,
Ha'aretz,
Nov.25, 2009
“Settlers Cut Olive Trees Near Hebron,”
by Saed Bannoura,
IMEMC & Agencies
, Sunday June 10, 2012
“The olive tree: a symbol of Palestinian steadfastness, subject to systematic destruction,”
Senussi Bsaikri,
Middle East Monitor
, January 18, 2010
“Uprooting Olive Trees in Palestine,”
Atyaf Alwazir, November 2002
"Uprooting Palestinian trees - and lives: Residents of the Palestinian village Beitilu watch helplessly as their trees are mysteriously mutilated,"
Amira Hass
,
Ha'aretz
, Jul.16, 2012
“Violence by settlers: Settler violence against Palestinian farmers and their property, Beitillu, Ramallah District,"
B’Tselem
, Nov. 1, 2011