I would like to respond with an excerpt from "Gaza Writes Back". Essay by Sarah Ali. Editor: Refaat Alareer
"...That an Israeli soldier could bulldoze 189 olive trees on the Land he claims is part of 'the God-given Land' is something I will never comprehend. Did he not consider the possibility that God might get angry? Did he not realize …
I would like to respond with an excerpt from "Gaza Writes Back". Essay by Sarah Ali. Editor: Refaat Alareer
"...That an Israeli soldier could bulldoze 189 olive trees on the Land he claims is part of 'the God-given Land' is something I will never comprehend. Did he not consider the possibility that God might get angry? Did he not realize it was a tree he was running over? If a Palestinian bulldozer were ever invented (Ha-ha, I know!) and I were given the chance to be in an orchard, in Haifa, for instance, I would never uproot a tree that an Israeli planted. No Palestinian would. To Palestinians, the tree is sacred, and so is the Land bearing it......
By uprooting plants and cutting trees continually, Israel tries to break that bond and impose its own rules of despair on Palestinians. By replanting their trees over and over again, Palestinians are rejecting Israel's rules."
I would like to respond with an excerpt from "Gaza Writes Back". Essay by Sarah Ali. Editor: Refaat Alareer
"...That an Israeli soldier could bulldoze 189 olive trees on the Land he claims is part of 'the God-given Land' is something I will never comprehend. Did he not consider the possibility that God might get angry? Did he not realize it was a tree he was running over? If a Palestinian bulldozer were ever invented (Ha-ha, I know!) and I were given the chance to be in an orchard, in Haifa, for instance, I would never uproot a tree that an Israeli planted. No Palestinian would. To Palestinians, the tree is sacred, and so is the Land bearing it......
By uprooting plants and cutting trees continually, Israel tries to break that bond and impose its own rules of despair on Palestinians. By replanting their trees over and over again, Palestinians are rejecting Israel's rules."
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