I didn't "say" anything. I asked you where your evidence was that she is lying.
See the difference?
Posted on 11/27/2005 12:27:01 PM PST by Alouette
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Jewish settlers cut down and uprooted hundreds of olive trees on Palestinian farms near the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, residents and Israeli police said.
Settlers from the most radical enclaves in the occupied West Bank have often attacked farms since the start of a Palestinian uprising in 2000, in which settlers have often been targeted by militants.
Settlers say that the land, which Palestinians want for a state, is theirs by biblical birthright.
Residents of Salem said dozens of settlers from Elon Moreh chopped down hundreds of the town's olive trees, the main source of income for 5,000 residents.
"This is not the first time that settlers have cut down dozens of olive trees. Among them were trees more than 30 years old," said Adli Eshiya, a local councilor. Villagers said it was the sixth such attack this year.
Police said that at least 200 olive trees had been destroyed near Salem and that an investigation had begun.
A spokesman for Elon Moreh settlement, Benny Katsover, said he was not aware of the incident.
More than 245,000 settlers live in the West Bank, home to 2.4 million Palestinians. The World Court has said that all of Israel's settlements on land captured in the 1967 Middle East war are illegal. Israel disputes this.
Settlers' anger has grown more intense since Israel removed settlements from the Gaza Strip this year under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for breaking from conflict with the Palestinians.
Although Sharon has said he has no further plans for unilateral withdrawals, he has said that some isolated West Bank settlements would have to go under any eventual peace deal. Elon Moreh is one of the smaller settlements.
"If it is determined that we are speaking about a provocation in which someone cut these branches and then filed a false accusation with the police, then we are dealing with false testimony, which is a serious infraction," police superintendent Doron Ben-Ami told IsraelNationalNews."
From your article. Who did the cutting then? The palis did the expert cutting, then said the trees were destroyed but didn't destroy them? It does not make sense. Sounds like a pretty bad "setup" to me. Something that wouldn't require an expert, or even a cop, to figure out.
Thanks for sharing your opinion on Bush and the TANG.
I didn't "say" anything. I asked you where your evidence was that she is lying.
See the difference?
Both sides have. One side have upper hand in Europe and Third World countries, the other in USA. The Arab Christians have nobody to defend them.
Somehow, I do not think you are going to get an answer.
And the basic technique of people like you is to engage in ad hominum attacks instead of answering the argument.
Alouette has chosen to continue lying
Where has Alouette lied specifically? If all you can do is name-call, then you are exactly what you claim she is.
We seem to be a lot of liars (or as in my case a liar or a moron) on this thread.
My transgression consisted of "pretending" to ask for photographic evidence of uprooted trees.
:)
You misuderstood what I said. I did not want to switch the subject to American Indians. I used the analogy. But do not worry, this thread probably will be pulled out soon. These are the signs:
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I didn't read that the entire crop had been done, did you? I did read in the article after the police investigation that the trees were pruned professionally and would be producing in 2 - 3 months. That isn't drastically pruning, imo.
Both sides have production companies that are documented in producing outright lies? What is the Israeli equivalent of Pallywood?
Is it a trick question? :)
If it means two to three months of lost income the impact is drastic.
Not at all. If you can show an Israeli equivalent of:
Dead people getting up from the ground and walking away-
Wounded people falling off their stretcher and jumping back on when the camera returns
Gunmen firing into an empty building while a director tells the extras to walk by
Shoppers walking by with their family and a stroller while a mock terror attack takes place for the cameras
Go ahead- please show me. I await your examples.
Did you see any uprooted trees??? One "dramatic" picture of an idiot wailing under a pruned, unuprooted tree.
So who's spinning?
No, it is not. Like Nachum, I'd like to see the Israeli counterpart to Pallywood. Where is it?
Here's the whole article: http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=52528
According to the article: "Police now feel that left-wing Israelis and the Arab tree-owners may have manufactured the entire incident as a provocation and a way to besmirch the Jewish population. The police have requested that Rabbi Arik Asherman of the Reform Movement and an Arab who filed charges against Jewish Yesha residents submit to lie-detector tests - but the two have, thus far, refused to do so."
"Rabbi Elyakim Levanon of Elon Moreh said that he was told by "official sources" that the pruning involved "dozens of hours of electric sawing." How is it, he asks, "that no one heard? I heard that one of the Arabs said something like, 'we heard something, but we didn't pay attention.' This is a total put-on: how could it be that throughout hours and even days of work, an entire village heard nothing?! [It's possible] that the Arabs did it themselves, in the course of regular pruning, after which someone had the brilliant idea of blaming it on the Jews...""
Actually, if you are referring to the article that I posted, that relates to the last time the Palestinian arabs tried to pull this stunt, in 2003. It doesn't relate to the current situation.
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