tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437359859068435113.post2901203913464762134..comments2024-03-24T16:27:11.673+01:00Comments on Abu Pessoptimist: Israelische kolonisten vernielen zo'n 170 olijfbomen van enkele honderden jaren oud Abu Pessoptimisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03717200416051685243noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437359859068435113.post-42540184830480185872015-06-15T16:10:11.520+02:002015-06-15T16:10:11.520+02:00Echt schandalig dat dit soort dingen nog gebeuren....Echt schandalig dat dit soort dingen nog gebeuren.patriciahttp://www.olijfboom.nl/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437359859068435113.post-38339462252778348532015-01-11T19:19:52.898+01:002015-01-11T19:19:52.898+01:00Uit een recent interview met Jo Roberts over haar ...Uit een recent interview met Jo Roberts over haar boek ‘Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe’ blijkt dat het vernietigen van olijfbomen al in de jaren rond 1948 een beproefd middel was om Palestijnen het leven onmogelijk te maken: <br /><br />‘The olive tree has a Biblical heritage, but for 20th century Jewish inhabitants of Mandate Palestine it was strongly associated with Palestinian Arabs. Olive trees were central to the economy of Arab Palestine; they were the source of its chief exports, soap and oil. In the early years of the Israeli state, uprooting olive groves was a practical tactic, to discourage the refugees from returning, and was also driven by more intangible fears: the olive “signified the ‘otherness’ of the Arab: the alien, the enemy,” to quote Arnon Golan. Forests of the more familiar European pine were often planted in their stead. Also at work were the forces of modernity; the European agricultural practices embraced by the Yishuv overthrew the whole traditional pattern of land use, and the landscape that it had formed.’ <br /><br />http://mondoweiss.net/2015/01/roberts-jewish-trauma<br />Martijnnoreply@blogger.com