[ScaniaBoy]

I guess it is that time of the year.

[Man50D]

I'm surprised they didn't try to blow up the Olive trees.

[ScaniaBoy]

PING!

(I remember last year when some FReepers were convinced that the palies would never do something like this to their own trees.

There have of course been a number of court cases where Arabs have been convicted of destroying olive orchards and trying to blame the Jews, but never mind. Facts are so elusive....)

[Dixie Yooper]

Just confess and say you did it. Who knows, maybe someday they will call you the Father of Palestine.

[The Blitherer]

This story is just so emblematic of the Arab culture as a whole.

[caver]

Maybe they couldn't find a pine tree and decided to use an olive trees for Christmas.

[pax_et_bonum]

It's agricultural warfare/terrorism:

"The culture of olive trees requires the patience of generations of agriculturists. The olive tree is green and non-deciduous, with a gray trunk that comes to appear wrinkled and knotty. An olive tree takes twenty-five (25) to fifty (50) years to mature, however, it begins to give fruit six (6)to eight (8) years after planting. The olive tree is an evergreen tree, and stands anywhere from 10-50 feet high. An average tree will yield about 22 pounds of olives during harvest, and the best yields are often from mature trees exceeding 250 years of age."

olive tree info

[Ilky Hucktar]

Did they scream, wild eyed, "Allah Ackbar" as they severed the trees' trunks from their roots?

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Tomorrow the world media runs pictures of olive trees cut down by Israeli settlers

[RobbyS]

Well, that's the kind of thing their ancestors did in the 7th Century when they overran Palestine.

[Right Wing Assault]

Maybe they will start sawing each others' heads off and blaming it on the Israelis. Oh, I guess they are already doing some of that.

[Alouette]

For all those who claim IsraelNN is a "biased, right-wing, pro-settler source"

YNet: 4 Palestinians detained for cutting down olive trees

[Crolis]

Heh, for a second there, I thought "PA" meant Pennsylvania. Guess I should read the article!

[F-117A]

The Albanians would do the same thing to the Serb farmer's plum trees in Kosovo in an effort to force them out.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Uh Oh, the evil Zionists will sue them for copyright infringement! < /s>

[Graymatter]

One does not cut down olive trees over there. They're practically immortal and prized like one's family heritage.

[Billthedrill]

Cutting down olive trees turns out to be harder than it looks. Victor Davis Hanson pointed that out in War And Agriculture In Ancient Greece. It's a sure way to get a rise out of the trees' owners, though, which was why they did it back then and it looks like they still are.

[MamaB]

Our neighbor went to Israel the summer after our daughter died in Jan. 2004. She planted an olive tree in her memory. Sure hope this did not happen wherever they had the tree planted.

[MinuteGal]

They wanted to take the olive trees home because they heard they were extra virgin.

Leni

[Old Professer]

They were gathering peace offerings...

[dr_who_2]

One PA Arab reportedly beat his chest three times and said "As Mohammed-peace be upon him-is my witness, I did not cut down a single olive tree. This isn't my axe, and if anyone says differently I'll chop his head off."