Saturday, October 19, 2013

Never on a Saturday

NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers chopped down more than 100 olive trees in the Nablus district village of Qaryut early Saturday, a Palestinian Authority official said.

Ghassan Daghlas, a PA official who monitors settler activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of Eli destroyed over 100 trees belonging to village residents...

Saturday?

The Sabbath?

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

First point - religious Jews would not violate the Sabbath to cut down trees. Second point - religious Jews would not cut down an olive tree, olives being one of the "shiva minim" or seven species sacred to Israel.