Mitzpei Yitzhar Residents Being Remanded

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=53773

"Two residents of the Shomron community of Mitzpei Yitzhar are being remanded today. They stand accused of cutting down hundreds of Arab olive trees in the village of Inbous. The hearing will be the second time the state requests they be held behind bars without bail. They have been in custody since their arrested last week."

Link to article about destruction of olive groves:

http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=2673&CategoryId=11

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"The olive harvest, a mainstay of the Palestinian economy, has been plagued by Israeli settler violence towards peaceful Palestinian farmers wishing to pick their produce. Over the past three years, with the resurgence of hostilities, the farmers have found it increasingly more difficult to care for their land in the face of threats, humiliation and beatings, but coupled with the Separation Wall being built on the most fertile Palestinian land, the task has simply become impossible.

In recent years, the Israeli settlers, backed by the government, have justified their attacks as ‘self defense’ needed to secure what they say is their God-given right to land that has been farmed by Palestinians for generations. Thus, in the Palestinian village of Ein Abus, about 3 miles south of Nablus, settlers from the Mitzpe Yitzhar outpost had destroyed all of the 255 trees on Fauzi Hassan Mohammed Hussein’s hillside orchard, leaving him with no means to support his family. Not a single olive was left in sight on any of the branches."

can-never-do-any-wrong-and-the-Palestinians-are-all-devils crowd. Gee, I wonder why that is? Could it be that there's no defense at all for this kind of bullshit, and that it's one more reason to add to the 99 million reasons why the settlements are illegal and wrong and should be disbanded?

by them, because they just don't like dealing with Israel's sins...

I'm surprised they haven't tried to paint it as Palestinians standing out in front of the olive trees pointing Uzis at Israeli children, ready to blow them away in the blink of an eye!!!

The article tells of two individuals who are being held by Israeli athorities in suspicion of having cut down the trees. Where is the claim to "Israel being right" or wrong?

To generalize this is completely wrong. It is not an indictment of all settlers.

Their total silence is absolutely deafening. I'm sure it wouldn't be, though, if it were the other way around now, would it?

but to negotiate in good faith.

:kick:Plop plop plop!!!!!!!

plop plop plop...

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Is that this seems to be something Israel may be doing right, albeit belatedly.

These people have committed a crime of malicious treapass and vandalism; they are under arrest, and apparently being held without bail. This is good. Let us hope they will draw a stiff term in gaol.

yer droppings are red dude. Get it checked out...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=53861

"Mother Denies Son´s Involvement In Olive-Tree Cutting"

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" Ms. Sandroy said that the cutting-down of the olive trees was "totally a staged affair. After all, two men could not cut down 600 trees by themselves in such a short time, and without anyone hearing anything. It's simply impossible. It would take days of work! In addition, the trees were cut down in a professional manner, to enable them to grow back quickly; this was simply a frame-up of the Jews who live nearby." She acknowledged that both the Jewish residents of Yitzhar and the army were pleased that there would be no olive harvest in the village this year, as the harvesting endangers the Jewish residents by enabling the Arabs to approach and reconnoiter the Jewish towns: "For the army, it was a welcome development, as it usually has to dedicate many resources to these olive harvests."