M. Merlo and L. Croitoru write in Valuing Mediterranean Forests (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, 2005): “Between 1971 and 1999, the forest area [in Palestine] decreased by 23%. … The lost forest area can be attributed to [illegal] Israeli settlements (77%), military camps (2%) and by-pass roads (1%); … for example, 670,000 fruit and forestry trees were uprooted during 2001 by the Israelis”.
While trees are being uprooted in Palestine, the remnants of the villages left behind in Israel by the Palestinians expelled in the ethnic cleansing which began in 1948 have since then been pasted over by tree plantations financed by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) to provide places where people can relax and have picnics on the weekends. You might call it “greenwashing”. The Israeli historian Ilan Pappe writes in his The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld Publications Ltd, Oxford, 2006): “In this way, the JNF ‘ecologises’ the crimes of 1948 in order for Israel to tell one narrative and erase another”. A liberal Israeli organisation has recently put up plaques in some of those “nature reserves”, telling visitors what was there before 1948.
See the entry “Palestine” in the book.
Mikael Grut, 6.10.2014
In general bathroom remodeling professionals
take advantage of bright shades as well as bold colors to add grace for the existing look of your
respective toilet area. Besides, there are lesser perils of contracting
skin and communicable diseases for those who have your own personal swimming pool.
Hassle-free electrical power and enhanced electrical services will
be the most crucial items that keep these commercial entities and industrial units running smoothly.
I am truly thankful to the holder of this web
site who has shared this fantastic piece of writing at here.
Wooden furniture has one thing really organic about it.
There is this feeling of heat, of attributes as well as of luxury that can be be discovered in wood household furniture.
Wood is actually born from the planet. It feeds the fire, falls to pieces
in to blows and ashes away. It is actually extremely near to the human existence
on earth. Might be that is why it reverberates a great deal with us.
Might be actually that is why you still get that warm and comfortable sensation when you
handle a rich mahogany work desk.