20 Jan, 2015
Asia Times Online: Lebensraum in Palestine
Olives are delicious and produce wonderful oil. They were originally cultivated in Syria, Palestine and Crete and there is evidence that some existing trees are 2,000 years old, which is amazing.
But there aren’t any 2,000 year-old olive trees in Palestine nowadays. Indeed there are very few left in the Palestinian lands that have been illegally occupied by Israel since 1967. Since then, the Israelis have destroyed over 800,000 Palestinian olive trees and on January 11 Israeli settlers uprooted another 170 of them in a village south of Nablus, the third such operation in a week of the campaign to destroy the livelihoods of Muslim Palestinians and force them out of their homes to make room for Jewish settlers.
The regime in Israel will continue to promote Lebensraum, just as Hitler directed, in the “land and soil to which they are entitled.” Netanyahu certainly won’t uproot any Israelis, but he will continue to uproot olive trees and Palestinians.
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