Raja Shehadeh on Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to destroy Hamas, and the anti-Palestinian violence in Gaza and the West Bank from Israeli troops and settlers.
For thousands of Palestinian families in the West Bank, though, the olive harvest is considered an important supplement to their income, if a potentially dangerous one. Israeli settlers regularly attack Palestinian farmers during the season and either steal their crops or prevent them from reaching their lands, in addition to destroying or cutting down olive trees.
“We will die with dignity and with pride, but we are not going to be killed according to the Israeli army orders and instructions,” as another colleague of mine, Raji Sourani, recently told “Democracy Now!” “I am here like an olive tree. We will never leave our homeland.” Many Palestinians are also returning to the north after discovering that it isn’t any safer in the south, where the bombing has continued. The violence permeating Gaza has begun to erupt in the West Bank.
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