Olive Harvest

Israel claims that security is the only reason it denies Palestinians access to the Seam Zone, but data obtained by MintPress shows that fewer than 1% of permits were denied on security grounds. 
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Hashem al-Azzeh harvests his family’s olives directly beneath the Israeli settlement of Tel Rumeida in the West Bank city of Hebron in October 2012. Ryan Rodrick BeilerActiveStills
 

THE OLIVE TREE

 
The still slow life is mine, my days are years.
 Tied to the soil, I reach towards the sky,
 as men rush by, so driven by their fears,
 and with their fears intact pass on and die.
                          From Plato’s Olive Tree
                          Unknown author
 
 Paul Balles