Fascist Settlers torch hundreds of Nablus olive trees

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Settlers torch hundreds of Nablus olive trees
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Nablus – Ma'an – Residents of the illegal Yitzhar settlement set fire to more than 100 dunums of Palestinian lands near Urif village, southwest of Nablus on Wednesday afternoon, Palestinian officials said.

Local official in charge of the settlements file in the northern West Bank Ghasan Daghlas said the fire was set in the Jabal Marwes area, the hill separating the villages of URif and Asira Al-Qaliya, into which Yitzhar's "municipal area" extends.

"The settlers had set fire to the area, and it spread across a large swath of agricultural land," Daghlas said.

When Palestinians saw the fire, dozens rushed to put it out, Daghlas continued, but said hundreds of almond and olive trees were destroyed.

"Clashes broke out between the Palestinians and the settlers who had lit the fire," Daghas said, and Israeli forces used tear gas to disperse the fight.

The fields, village official Fawzi Shaehada said, belong to Mohammad Salamh A’mer As-Aafadi from Urif.

An Israeli military official said a fight broke out in a "disputed area" between what she estimated was 50 Palestinians and Yitzhar residents, where "mutual rock throwing" took place. She said Israeli border police dispersed the fight and noted no arrests.
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Clashes reported in East Jerusalem
Published today (updated) 02/06/2010 21:41
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Jerusalem – Ma'an – Violent clashes broke out in occupied East Jerusalem between young people in the Silwan neighborhood and a large force of police and special units in addition to settlers.

Our correspondent quoted anti-settlement leader Haj Fakhri Abu Diab as saying the clashes concentrated in the area of Bir Ayoub and around the Silwan protest tent area.

The correspondent said that there were injuries among the locals as well as one Israeli operative.

An Israeli police spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment

[Starport]

Isn't this Zionland thing just a fascist state bent on genocide and supported by a crisis ridden imperialism gearing up for more war? Its very existence as, anything other than a rogue terrorist outfit, is what needs to be questioned.

[Cooler Reds Will Prevail]

I used to have a professor that was a strict non-violence supporter, and he was in favor of solely non-violent resistance in Palestine. Recently, I was reading "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein, who points out that since the collapse of the USSR and the influx of Eastern European Jews to Palestine, the need for Palestinian labor by the Israeli ruling class has evaporated.

This article demonstrates the contempt that settlers have for even the mere existence of Palestinians. What I never got a chance to ask my professor was how people are supposed to center on non-violent resistance when they're fighting extermination and expulsion? It's one thing when you have leverage, i.e. labor power, and can cripple an economy and political system with strikes and demonstrations, but when the oppressor's goal is your removal, how is a sit-in going to help?