Olive harvest report

CALLS OUT TO VOLUNTEERS FOR ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE AUTUMN 2008 OLIVE HARVEST AND FARMING TASKS

THE OLIVE HARVEST COALITION

Gush Shalom, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Alternative Information Center, Kibbutz (Projects) and Youth Movements,
Yesh Gvul, Yesh Din, Combatants for Peace, Machsomwatch, The Olive Tree Movement, The Villages Group, Coalition of Women for Peace, Rabbis for Human Rights, Taayush – Arab-Jewish Partnership

CALLS OUT TO VOLUNTEERS FOR ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE AUTUMN 2008 OLIVE HARVEST AND FARMING TASKS

Greetings,

As has become our custom since 2002, Israeli and international volunteer organizations and groups take an active part in the annual olive harvest farming tasks throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Words carried by Gamilah, Salem's trees planting ceremony, 2/2/2007

Hi to all of you,
Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals who came to celebrate with us this olive tree planting day.
I am vary glad to see that you all made to here today – it is important to you all would be living witnesses to this well orchestrated show that god willing, would come true to become a daily reality.

I truly love to see all those new faces in the crowd – it is time for all of you to get our country to pluck its head out of the sand and face the cruel and inhuman reality of daily life we are living in here.
A reality of an enlightened and democratic state, in which roads are designated apart for Jews and non-Jews, as it was in the darkest of regimes, that disintegrated a long time ago.

מסיק ראשון ליד התנחלות ברכה

מעוללות הכיבוש הנאור: ב-4/10/06 הגענו, תריסר ישראלים המאורגנים ע"י "רבנים שומרי משפט", למטע זיתים של תושב כופר-קליל שבאזור שכם. באנו כדי לאפשר לבעלי המטע לממש את זכותו הבסיסית – למסוק את זיתיו. כשהגיע למטע יום קודם לכן עם בני משפחתו – גורש ע"י חיילינו מאדמתו. זאת – בניגוד מוחלט להבטחות צה"ל בבג"צ שיאפשרו למקומיים לעבד את אדמותיהם.

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