Stop uprooting Palestinian Trees!

The Israeli Army plans to force farmers from Deir Istiya, a village in
the northern West Bank, to uproot 1400 olive trees in Wadi Qana by the
first of May.

The village, together with international and Israeli supporters, will
resist and open up a protest camp in the olive goves.

It is to expected that the Israeli army will respond with the usual
excessive force to quell the resistance and enforce the uprooting of the
trees. The village needs all the outside support it can get.

The International Women's Peace Service IWPS, who are based in the
village of Deir Istiya, set up a online petition to write to the
relevant Israeli politicians in protest:

Uprooting trees is one of the many strategies the Israeli government uses to weaken the spirit of Palestinians peacefully living on their land. Sign this petition to show your support that uprooting these trees is not ok for the following reasons:

1. There is no logical reason for why the Israeli Defence Force needs to uproot these trees. 
2. Agriculture is one of the few remaining ways of how Palestinians put bread and butter on their table. By destroying these trees the IDF is abusing their basic human rights. 
3. These trees are owned, planted and cared for by Palestinians on their own land. They are not stolen, they do not harm anyone, and they are not on Israeli owned land. Ask yourself why then do these trees need to be uprooted?

Please sign this petition so we can show the Israeli government that the outside world cares about the atrocities they think they are secretly committing.

http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-uprooting-palestinian-trees

Please keep informed in the following days and help us reach out to the
media and a wider public:

http://iwps.info/
http://palsolidarity.org/

Contacts in the village:

International Women's Peace Service 00972-9 251-4644; 00972-597317193
Rezeq Abu Nasser (Farmer): 00972-599116416
Nazmi Salman (Mayor of Deir Istiya): 00972-599788273

International Women's Peace Service

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“They have succeeded in dominating us more
through ignorance, than through force”.
Simon Bolivar

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."  Voltaire

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the  oppressed"  - Steve Biko