At Esh-Kodesh and Adei-Ad

This past Friday, I had occasion to visit two outpost communities in the Shiloh Bloc with a diplomat interest in seeing things "on the ground".

Among other sites, we were at Esh Kodesh, establish in 1999 and now with 26 families.  In the two pictures below, you can see, on the one hand, desolation from the previous decades and more, and on the other, two vineyards begun recently on the slopes of a hill that separates Esh-Kodesh from Kutsra.  Jewish development.

The first picture is further to the northeast from where we were standing at the community's synagogue:

and the second, is further to the west and you can also see older agricultural efforts in the wadi at the bottom which now, I heard, is recently the subject of a claim by a resident of another Arab village, Jaloud:

The next two pictures are of the olive tree orchard of Moshe Tamir, damaged last week, probably during Shmini Atzeret/Simchat Torah:-

You can see branches broken, etc.

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Jewish Fields and Crops Burned

First, there were stories about Jews uprooting Arab olive trees.

As I wrote there, I couldn't get any information more than the Arab announcement. No confirmation. Have you seen any evidence of their tale? We have a name, Abdelhameed Muhsen, but I don't have his phone number.

But I was at Achiyah this morning. And do you know what I saw? I saw lots of Jewish land burnt. Saplings destroyed. In between Achiyah and Esh Kodesh.

The photographic evidence:

a) looking north-east from Achiyah, along the ridge is Jaloud. There's the last Jewish house (at present) in the lower-left corner and the Arab village a few hundred meters on. And in the lower right-hand corner, already you can see the remnants of the third (!) fire in the past 8 days set by Arabs.



b) the burned area there at the bottom of the slope:


c) a close-up of the charred remnants:


d) to the east, the extent of the damage:


e) to the north-east and on the ridge is Kuzra, an Arab village, and center below, more damaged area:


f) Esh-Kodesh on the horizon and the end of the blackened wadi:


Did you hear or see of this series of incidents?


And now over at INN.


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