Looking at this one realises what an olive tree, massacred here by subhuman settlers, means for the indigenous people of Palestine..Without over sentementalising the event, It's like mourning a dead family member.
Palestinian Olives
"It is hard to describe to non-Palestinians what the olive tree means to us. We could tell of the practical things but that would be like saying our spouses mean a lot to us because of ... (and then list all the things they do). Of course these things are important but not the whole picture and we could never do justice that way to people or other living things we love. But just like listing what people do helps others visualize their character, so it is with the beloved olive tree. Palestinians over the past 5000 years have cultivated olive trees and derived great benefit from these wonderful hardy trees:
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