[Mb-civic] The Israeli Tree War

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The Israeli Tree War

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0440/fahim.php

Obscured by an election, Iraq, and Sudan, Gaza smolders

The violence couldn't come at a worse time for those it threatens. The Bush 
administration long ago lost what little interest it had in the conflict, 
and the Kerry campaign has tended to keep quiet as well; neither candidate 
mentioned the crisis in last week's presidential debate, and Jim Lehrer, 
the moderator, didn't ask. Journalists have complained of trouble getting 
into Jabaliya to report on the fighting. Getting the news noticed, over the 
din of wars in Iraq and Sudan, is a separate, difficult task.

A Washington Post article Tuesday tallied the deadly cost of four years of 
the intifada. Molly Moore and John Ward Anderson report that 2,800 
Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis have been killed since September 2000, and 
this year, Palestinians are dying at the rate of five to every Israeli 
fatality. Some 32,700 people have been injured, the overwhelming majority 
Palestinian. The Israeli army has demolished 2,751 homes and uprooted or 
burned 382,695 olive trees.




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