Olive tree "tragedy" a farce

[hossdiddy]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=52504

...Last week, a group of Israeli left-wing activists, together with Arabs from the village of Inbus – opposite the outlying neighborhood of Mitzpe Yitzhar – filed a police complaint claiming that their olive trees had been cut down by Jewish residents of Yesha (Judea, Samaria and Gaza). The Samaria region Police came to investigate, bringing along an olive-tree expert from the Jewish National Fund, who concluded that the trees had not been cut down at all, but rather had merely had their upper branches pruned. He stated: “whoever cut these trees did so expertly in the specific manner which does not cause any serious damage whatsoever to the tree, whose branches will begin to grow back within 2 to 3 months.”

As a result of the JNF expert’s conclusions, the Police have requested that the left-wing Israeli activists and the Arabs from Inbus undergo a polygraph lie-detector examination to determine whether the accusations filed against the Jewish residents were a purposely-manufactured provocation.

“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 Israel National News.

Residents of the village of Yitzhar in Northern Samaria, as well as the outlying neighborhoods of Mitzpe Yitzhar and Hill 725 have published a joint statement denying any connection to the cutting of the village of Inbus’ olive trees. The letter is a response to MK Efraim Sneh and some in the press who have stated, “without a shred of evidence” that the residents cut down the olive trees.

“There is not one bit of truth in these accusations – they are simply baseless slander,” wrote the residents.

“We request from those members of the press who lay guilt upon the settlers for the cutting of olive trees – which hasn’t happened and will not happen – to cease their program of delegitimization against the residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza and to return to reporting the facts,” said Aviad Vissouly, chairman of the Land of Israel movement. “The fact is that the police have asked the left-wing activists and the Arabs to be examined by a lie-detector and they are refusing to participate in the investigation. We are talking about a program of slander on par with the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion,’ and we are requesting that the Prime Minister order a full investigation and report the findings to the public."...
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Palestinians and traitorous Israelis lying for propaganda purposes? I'm shocked.

[Darranar]

1. Another link to this?

[hossdiddy]

2. Oops

Didn't realize it's been up already.

Don't come here too often.

[Darranar]

5. Another link? Well?

Do you have one?

If even JPost hasn't pounced on this one, then the report that this is a farce is likely a farce.

[bluesoul]

3. Traitorous Israelis? LOL

As though cutting of olive trees hasn't been a practice in the past and as though a large part of the agriculture hasn't been destroyed by the IDF and even settlers. Oh please...

[hossdiddy]

4. Large part? LOL

I suppose you've done an agricultural study pre and post-1967, measuring olive trees, etc.

[bluesoul]

6. What planet

are you living on? Try visiting once the OT and see for yourself...

[Aidoneus]

7. settler rampages akin to the Protocols..

only Arutz Sheva could pull that one off..

[madrchsod]

8. wow!!

after checking around in the website ,i came across this website at the bottom of the page-"gamla"- well it`s an interesting site . for a monent i thought i was at "stormfront" but then i realized this was a jewish extreme right wing site..couldn`t tell the difference, just change the names of who you want to hate.

[Scurrilous]

9. This article was linked in..

..Free Republic 6 days ago. Elicited exactly 2 responses. Not even the Freepers took this one seriously.

[Paschall]

10. Tree surgeons at work

By Uzi Benziman

Permit me to introduce the reader to a new term, recently spun by the word Laundromat that cleanses Israeli actions in the territories: gidum - a Hebrew word that can mean cutting or amputation. It is now being used to describe the action perpetrated against the olive trees in the Samarian village of Ein Abus.

The gidum caused a commotion last week that hit 5.0 on the (Avi) Dichter scale, and prompted the prime minister to instruct the director of Shin Bet and the Israel Police to investigate what really happened in the affair.

Chief Inspector Doron Ben-Abu, spokesman for the Judea and Samaria police district, made freewheeling use of the novel term in his attempt to explain what happened to the olive grove - owned by Fawzi Hussein - that was the focus of media reports. While during the previous week the Israeli press (including this reporter) described the indecent act committed against the trees as "uprooting," this week agitated news reports were circulated on Web sites identified with the right, which described the action as merely "pruning"; in other words, limited, thoughtful cutting back of the tree for the purposes of botanic health and recovery.

Chief Inspector Ben-Abu found the need to employ the term "gidum" - in other words, something between uprooting and pruning. In pure linguistic terms, "gidum" is a situation from which there is no way back. There is no such thing as a truncated tree trunk that rehabilitates or reconstitutes itself. (more)

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/360681.html

[papau]

11. I was about to post this! -At least one country -Israel - has a free press

I hope the Geneva accords get acted on by the next prime minister.