Olive Trunks.near Kfar Adumim Settlement..A field of olive tree trunks in the West Bank. According to Scripture 14 of the Torah, the destruction of fruit trees, even those of the enemy during conflict, is expressly forbidden. There are conflicting stories as to why the trees where removed; the first, that they were cut down by the Israeli Military for security reasons, another that they were cut to make way for settlement expansion. These trunks are located across the highway from Maale...
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Olive Trunks.near Kfar Adumim Settlement..A field of olive tree trunks in the West Bank. According to Scripture 14 of the Torah, the destruction of fruit trees, even those of the enemy during conflict, is expressly forbidden. There are conflicting stories as to why the trees where removed; the first, that they were cut down by the Israeli Military for security reasons, another that they were cut to make way for settlement expansion. These trunks are located across the highway from Maale Adumim, the largest Israeli Settlement in the West Bank whose population has more than doubled, to over 33,000 people, since the Oslo Accords were signed in '93..
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