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Palestinian Olive Season Puts Focus on Israeli Settlements

Olive trees are a Palestinian national symbol, a fact acknowledged by Israeli settlers who continually seek to destroy them.
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The four-minute video and 13 photos posted on the website of the Palestine News Network tells the story vividly. Members of various diplomatic missions to Palestine joined Palestinians in picking olives.

The exercise was no simple picnic or an innocent act of voluntary work. It was another visible manifestation of the major problem of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: the struggle for land.

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