#Olive trees
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chuchayucca · 9 months ago
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Original thread repost | Original thread | Original Article (Source of the posters)
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The image descriptions were written by @/carstairsbur and Mohammed Haddad, Konstantinos Antonopoulos and Marium Ali.
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disruptiveempathy · 10 months ago
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At times, the original flora [of Palestine] manages to return in surprising ways. Pine trees were planted not only over bulldozed houses, but also over fields and olive groves. In the new development town of Migdal Ha-Emek, for example, the JNF did its utmost to try and cover the ruins of the Palestinian village of Mujaydil, at the town’s eastern entrance, with rows of pine trees, not a proper forest in this case but just a small wood. Such ‘green lungs’ can be found in many of Israel’s development towns that cover destroyed Palestinian villages (Tirat Hacarmel over Tirat Haifa, Qiryat Shemona over Khalsa, Ashkelon over Majdal, etc.). But this particular species failed to adapt to the local soil and, despite repeated treatment, disease kept afflicting the trees. Later visits by relatives of some of Mujaydial’s original villagers revealed that some of the pine trees had literally split in two and how, in the middle of their broken trunks, olive trees had popped up in defiance of the alien flora planted over them fifty-six years ago.
—Ilan Pappé, from The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
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rafalkbircom · 8 months ago
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In this dire situation and fearing for my family's future, my friend donia have launched a fundraiser to rebuild our home and improve our circumstances. Your support is crucial and could make a difference in our survival. https://gofund.me/35064b1a
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henk-heijmans · 4 months ago
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Vita aeterna: Puglia’s olive trees to New York, 2016 - by Barbara Luisi (1964), German/American
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thewhiteraven2020 · 9 months ago
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From the river to the sea!!
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sayruq · 8 months ago
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mysharona1987 · 9 months ago
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silvaris · 7 months ago
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Garden of Gethsemane by Cliff Hope
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werewolfaday · 10 months ago
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day 24: olive trees
striking 23-28th; i won't be focusing on werewolves, and i'll be drawing attention to palestinian symbols and imagery instead.
links to donate
call your reps
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chuchayucca · 9 months ago
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Common Palestinian symbols
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I got permission from @/carstairsbur to repost this thread
The image descriptions for the posters were written by @/carstairsbur and Mohammed Haddad, Konstantinos Antonopoulos and Marium Ali.
Original thread | Images only | Original Article (Source of the posters)
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useless-catalanfacts · 4 months ago
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La Sénia town and its surrounding landscape, including the Sénia river and one of the thousand-years-old olive trees. The area around the Sénia river in Terres de l’Ebre, Catalonia, has the highest concentration of thousand-years-old olive trees in the world, with at least 5,000 of them.
Photos by Turisme La Sénia and santy_gimeno on Instagram.
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huariqueje · 8 months ago
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The olive grove on Mount Cannes - Greta Gerell, 1946.
Swedish, 1898 - 1982
Oil on cardboard panel , 60 x 74 cm.
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🌿An Earth Day fusion repost from @theimeu and @muchachafanzine.
🌿In honor of Earth Day, please visit @zaytoun_cic, @handmadepalestine, or @plant.eenolijfboom to plant an olive tree in Palestine. 🕊
🌿From @theimeu:
This Earth Day, we mourn the 34,000+ Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza and Israel’s continued degradation of Gaza’s land, water, and other natural resources that make life possible for Palestinians.
In the past 6 months alone, Israel has destroyed farmland and greenhouses, contaminated natural resources with hazardous materials, bombed key water purifying infrastructure and wells, and created conditions for epidemics caused by an extreme excess of sewage, waste, and pollution.
Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s environment is part of its goal of making life for Palestinians in Gaza unlivable.
Link in bio to contact your reps and urge an immediate, permanent ceasefire and the immediate suspension of all arms and funds to Israel.
Sources: The Guardian, Scientific American
🌿From @muchachafanzine:
Reminder this #EarthDay that from Turtle Island to Pa1estine, your environmentalism doesn’t mean sh!t if you don’t support giving the #LandBack to Indigenous people. 🤷🏽‍♀️
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probablyasocialecologist · 1 year ago
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Palestinians have historically cultivated the land, not just with olive trees, but also with figs, apricots, oranges, and dates. Yet, Zionist propaganda, though a concentrated effort to steal Palestinian land, has insisted on “making the desert bloom.” The desert has already been blooming and supporting its Indigenous population, as it has for thousands of years. Since the early twentieth century, Zionists have nevertheless co-opted the language of environmentalism and sustainability as a means of forcing the native Arab population off of the lands they covet. The Jewish National Fund (JNF), a self-described Zionist organization, has an explicit mission: to acquire land throughout Palestinian territories and plant trees—with “proud Jewish identity.” The JNF claims to have planted 240 million trees over 227,000 acres. This tree-planting crusade is detrimental to the land. Pine trees that constitute the colonist’s imaginary of a forest in Europe replace the native plant species and change the soil’s chemistry, such that agricultural crops cannot thrive. This further displaces Palestinians, as well as the nomadic Bedouin peoples, who rely on the land for grazing their cattle. Settlers want to extract from the “blooming desert.” In contrast, the Indigenous approach to land is one of mutual respect and nourishment: the land sustains life and culture, a culture that settler-colonialism wants to erase. To achieve this end, the Zionist occupation has used a variety of tactics to disrupt the Palestinian economy, including controlling water resources so that groves cannot be irrigated as needed, which is especially important now given the effects of the climate crisis. Additionally, the Zionists instituted a permit system that has prevented olive farmers from accessing their trees for all but a handful of days per year. This has made it difficult, if not impossible, to do necessary maintenance like pruning and weeding, greatly impacting the quality of the harvest. Most egregiously, the Zionists erected walls separating farmers from their groves, slicing up plots of land that have been in the same family for generations. Such measures have forced olive farmers to rely on olives of subpar quality. Because of the limited days that farmers are given to access their trees, they might be forced to pick the olives before peak ripeness, affecting the quality of the olive oil produced and therefore the prices that the oil will fetch. A 1994 New York Times article summarized the struggle succinctly: “The Palestinians planted tiny olive trees; the Israeli soldiers dug them up. The Palestinians lay down in the road to block a bulldozer; the Israelis carted them off to police vans.”
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thunderstruck9 · 1 year ago
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Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953), Oliviers à Golfe-Juan [Oilive Trees, Golfe-Juan], c.1923. Watercolour on paper, 49 x 63 cm.
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a-typical · 11 months ago
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé (2006)
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