Israelis Destroy Palestinian Orchard to Put Up Sewage Line

The Inquisitor · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 772

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They destroy the farm just because they can and the Palestinians have to say, "Thank you Oh mighty Israelis. Thank you for destroying my livelihood." The Jewish settlement at the top of the hill is illegal. And then they go and destroy the man's farm.

Yeah, I guess the victims are the Israelis here, right? I can see them suffering after each tree is pulled out of the ground. The bad Palestinians are the ones to blame here. See how bad they are??? They've only had that farm for the last 200 years.

Radiate_Truth · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 1056

Legal procedures are already in place to allow every owner to file an objection to the seizure of their land. Moreover, property owners are offered compensation for the use of their land and for any damage to their trees. Contractors are responsible for carefully uprooting and replanting the trees.

Israel is providing agricultural passageways to allow farmers to continue to cultivate their lands, and crossing points to allow the movement of people and the transfer of goods. Contractors are responsible for carefully uprooting and replanting the trees. So far, more than 60,000 olive trees have been relocated in accordance with this procedure.

Legal procedures allow every owner to file an objection to the seizure of their land. In addition, Israel has budgeted $22 million to compensate Palestinians for the use of their land. As of September, Palestinians had filed $2.2 million in compensation claims.

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The Inquisitor · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 772

That may be all well and good, but what if the Palestinian doesn't want to sell his land. I'm sure there were Palestinians who owned the land where the illegal Israeli settlements are now located. I have often heard from Palestinians that they don't want to sell the land they own. It was land passed down to them through the generations. They want to peacefully go about their business on the land they were born and raised on.

I guess that option isn't open to the Palestinians. For them the choice seems to be take the money or not, you're gonna lose the land your family has lived on for over a thousand years. \

And as far as the "contractors are responsible for carefully uprooting and replanting the trees" goes, I'd say that the video I put up doesn't show this to be the case. I used to work on a farm, and I never saw someone "carefully uprooting and replanting trees" with a bulldozer. That type of uprooting will only damage the trees.

I guess the Palestinians don't really have much of a choice about their own land and their own lives. Israel doesn't make deals, it forces people off the land, "Here's some money, no go live somewhere else. Oh, and if you don't want the money, that's okay, just go live somewhere else without it then"