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Settlers burn down ancient tree in Hebron
Published Saturday 02/06/2012 (updated) 04/06/2012 11:05
A group of settlers burned down an ancient olive tree in central Hebron
overnight, witnesses said. (MaanImages/File)
HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers set fire to a 1,000-year-old olive tree in central Hebron overnight Friday, witnesses said.

Local activist Issa Amro said the group then hurled stones at a community center in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood on Saturday morning.

Settlers tried to remove the Palestinian flag from the 'steadfastness and challenge' center while Israeli soldiers looked on, he said.

Several days ago a group of settlers stole the building's flag, which activists had since replaced with a new one, Amro added.

Tel Rumeida lies in the Israeli-military controlled H2 zone of the southern West Bank city, after a 1997 agreement split Hebron into areas of Palestinian and Israeli control.

The zone includes the ancient Old City, home of the revered Ibrahimi Mosque -- also split into a synagogue referred to as the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

Around 800 Jewish settlers live in Hebron's Old City, among 30,000 Palestinians in the parts of the city that are under Israeli control.
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1 ) War On Olives / Palestine
02/06/2012 18:17
I still don't get it, why would anyone burn an olive tree?
2 ) Moira / Occupied East Jerusalem
02/06/2012 20:27
If they can't uproot it & take it with them (claim it as theirs)...they sure don't want anyone else to enjoy it,let alone a Palestinian.
3 ) Jane / Pa
02/06/2012 23:31
They are barbars.
4 ) Dianne / Australia
03/06/2012 02:12
Because the settlers are uneducated uncivilized religious swine
5 ) Paul / Kenya
03/06/2012 15:53
Thats rich, Dianne coming from a settler like you living on the lands you stole, after murdering most of its original inhabitants, the Aborigine's.
Shame on you, you murderering thief.
6 ) Colin Wright / USA
03/06/2012 21:03
Morbidly comic. Just in case anyone had any doubt about the moral texture of Israel...
7 ) Colin Wright / USA
03/06/2012 21:05
Re Paul #5 'Thats rich, Dianne coming from a settler like you living on the lands you stole...' And as usual, the best moral argument the pro-Israelites can come up with is 'he did it too.' I guess that gives us all carte blanche. As long as someone, somewhere, at some time, committed a similar crime, we can do it as well. And that's the best defense they have! It's pathetic -- or would be, if it wasn't so vicious.
8 ) Colin Wright / USA
03/06/2012 21:10
and Paul...'...after murdering most of its original inhabitants, the Aborigine's.' (I) In point of fact, fairly few aborigines were actually murdered, and damned few after the British started hanging anyone who did such a thing starting in 1838. And if Palestine had been as thinly populated as Australia was, it would indeed have been 'a land without a people for a people without a land,' and Dianne herself isn't currently advocating a continuation of such policies, while you are...
9 ) Colin Wright / USA
03/06/2012 21:12
and Paul...'...after murdering most of its original inhabitants, the Aborigine's.' (II) ...and last but not least, two wrongs don't make a right, and if that's the only defense you've got the Zionists might as well get on the plane for New Jersey right now. The argument no more serves you than it would have served the Nazis at Nuremburg if they'd whined that 'but the Mongols did it too...'
10 ) Colin Wright / USA
03/06/2012 21:14
To Dianne #4 'Because the settlers are uneducated uncivilized religious swine' On behalf of uneducated uncivilized religious swine, I protest. Uneducated uncivilized religious swine just do meth and steal your car if you forget to take the keys out. The settlers are something considerably worse.
11 ) Outsider / EU
04/06/2012 09:27
5) Interesting parallel you are making there. Not very flattering for the "settlers".
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