[It's me]

Funny how California olive growers "destroy" their own trees the same way as the "eeville settlers" "destroy" Palestinian trees.

From the article:

. Jewish settlers cut down and uprooted hundreds of olive trees on Palestinian farms...

So, you are saying thatr it is ok that the settlers cut down and uprooted the trees?
That is a bit different than what the California Olive growers do, don't you think?

And no I am not a Palestinian sympathizer. I think you spun the facts just a bit.

[Alouette]

So, you are saying thatr it is ok that the settlers cut down and uprooted the trees?

No, I am saying that the "settlers" DID NOT CUT DOWN or UPROOT any trees.

Look at the pictures on Yahoo. When you find a picture of a CUT DOWN or UPROOTED tree, post it here.

[Polybius]

So, you are saying that it is ok that the settlers cut down and uprooted the trees? That is a bit different than what the California Olive growers do, don't you think?

My reaction to this thread underwent three stages.

Stage 1 after reading the headline and the start of the article: That was a vindictive and petty thing for those settlers to do.

Stage 2 after seeing the Palestinian woman hugging the tree: Huh? Why didn't the Israeli vandals just saw through the trunk of the tree rather than wasting time cutting small, high branches that will grow back with even more vigor?

Stage 3 after seeing Alouette's pruning article: Oh, I get it. Reuters is just lying through its teeth again or got thoroughly hoodwinked when the Palestinians pruned their own trees and then invited Reuters to blame the settlers with vandalism.

[rock58seg]

Did you see any uprooted trees??? One "dramatic" picture of an idiot wailing under a pruned, unuprooted tree.

So who's spinning?