A bitter harvest in the occupied West Bank | Letters

An encounter with the ‘godmother’ of Israel’s settler project is recalled by Maggie Foyer, while Paul Healy draws comparisons between divisions in the Middle East and those in Northern IrelandRe Louis Theroux’s article (If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention, 10 May), some years back I had a brief conversation with Daniella Weiss in an olive grove on the hillside near the settlement of Kedumim. It was during a standoff between Israeli settlers, the Israeli army and the Palestinian farmers who owned the land we were helping to harvest.She said the land was “empty” when Kedumim was established in 1975, and that the well-established old olive trees were wild. I pointed out that they were growing in well-spaced rows. “They’re wild,” she replied. I noted that the hillside was terraced with stones. “They’re wild,” she repeated. I gave up discussing further. Louis Theroux, in his excellent film, summed her up well with a single word: “sociopathic”. Continue reading...

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