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Thousands of fruit trees destroyed for ‘security reasons’ in Turkey’s Kurdish region
KOM News ^ | 27 March 2017 | none stated

Posted on 03/27/2017 11:53:23 AM PDT by Texas Fossil

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To: Texas Fossil
When I lived in SoCal....I had 27 fruit trees on my property.

That's the only thing I miss...about SoCal.

21 posted on 03/27/2017 12:36:02 PM PDT by Osage Orange (We can all live together as brothers or perish together as fools)
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To: Texas Fossil

Agree, growing fruit (commercial orchards) is hard work. And most of us do it as a labor of love.

Cant imagine the emotional anguish these farmers are going through.

It’s one thing to lose a crop to frost, hail or insects. It’s another to lose a whole orchard like me to fire blight but to have to watch as someone come in and intentionally destroy your life in front of you would scar me forever.


22 posted on 03/27/2017 12:51:36 PM PDT by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. I have been a DOS / PC guy forever and always e)
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To: Texas Fossil

One of the longest lasting of war crimes is the destruction of orchards.


23 posted on 03/27/2017 1:35:55 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Texas Fossil

bo’s man, islamist Erdogan thuggocracy. Another #obamaLegacy.
bo’s loves islamists, bo loves thugs. Add them up: it’s bo Nirvana.


24 posted on 03/27/2017 1:53:08 PM PDT by parisa
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To: Texas Fossil

Deut 20:19-20

Seems their ways are a violation of the Word in every way.

It does make your heart sick.


25 posted on 03/27/2017 2:16:45 PM PDT by linedrive
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Thanks, very interesting. And I had not remembered reading that scripture.

It is relevant.


26 posted on 03/27/2017 2:46:06 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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Those who do such things should themselves experience hunger.

Did you know that Turkey stopped a truckload of wheat flour and turned it away from the border into Syria? It was a gift from a US relief effort (NGO). I called my congressman, and he hit some buttons. I later saw a load of flour being offloaded near Raqqa. Not sure it was same shipment, but would say it’s likely. The flour was destined for a commercial bakery given by a Swiss company to the Rojava region. It was a large commercial bakery.

Imagine such human cruelty to displaced persons.


27 posted on 03/27/2017 2:52:48 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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Here is when I learned of it.

https://twitter.com/TX_1/status/840006016565727232


28 posted on 03/27/2017 2:55:20 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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We have always had some fruit trees since I was a child. 5 years ago I planted 27 bare root trees to expand mine. It was during the drought, I lost almost 1/2 of them. But have added more since then. They are not yet very productive. The old ones still bear a lot of fruit. 2 old pear trees, many old peacans some huge, a 50 year old Hachiya Japanese persimmon (I dried 200 this year, tiny portion) and some old plum bushes.

I have young apricot, peach, apple, plum, almond, cherry and fig. Multiple varieties on the peach, apple and pear trees.


29 posted on 03/27/2017 3:08:08 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Truth29

potatoes....like the Irish....


30 posted on 03/27/2017 7:08:03 PM PDT by cherry
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