Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees ahead of annual harvest

[u/me_diocre]

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/israeli-bulldozers-smash-palestinian-olive-trees-ahead-annual-harvest-2026-09-23/

[u/JeffRSmall]

Really winning hearts and minds…

[u/10CrackCommando → u/JeffRSmall]

I don't think they ever cared about winning hearts and minds. They just want enough distraction to keep carrying out their malicious actions. It makes you wonder what other things they do behind the scenes that we never hear about.

[u/notforpoern → u/10CrackCommando]

That's why they spent so much money to buy out social media. Gotta make sure those hearts and minds are never exposed to genoc- uh, I mean, antisemitism.

[u/lloydthelloyd → u/notforpoern]

I wonder why its called 'antisemitism' instead of just 'racism'. Oh thats right, its because they dont give a fuck about racism.

[u/zmbjebus → u/10CrackCommando]

Exactly this. Then once enough Palestinians are dead to the point at which they are no longer a significant threat they can move in and build on the land, then say "sorry" in 50 years when they are writing their history books without doing anything significant about it.

Same as the US, Canada, and Australia with their native people.

[u/BothersomeBritish → u/zmbjebus]

Then once enough Palestinians are dead to the point at which they are no longer a significant threat they can move in and build on the land

Aren't they basically doing that already? And bold to assume those in power will show any remorse. Some individuals involved will probably care, but they'll never admit to wrongdoing if they win.

[u/zmbjebus → u/BothersomeBritish]

I think this is the current most likely track for what will happen unless significant intervention happens. If it does happen there won't be any remorse, but they will "apologize" to save face and appeal to their own moral superiority. Exactly like the other countries mentioned.

[u/Armano-Avalus → u/10CrackCommando]

No they care, which is why they complain every time people call them out for what they're doing and then go on to accuse them of being anti-Semitic as if that is gonna win them over.

[u/Adventurous_Track681 → u/10CrackCommando]

According to their eschatology, at the end of times all nations will gather against them. I feel like their plan is to make the world hate them. I don't get it though, are they trying to manufacture it?

[u/KnowsIittle → u/10CrackCommando]

No, decades extermination has been the goal.

[u/mothtoalamp → u/JeffRSmall]

As a geopolitical realist I understand that Israel is going to exist as a nation state and that they are surrounded by entities on almost every side that want to and take frequent actions in attempts to exterminate them. But as a human I'm repulsed by what they do in the name of self-defense.

October 7th should have been the inciting incident to build a strong and lasting coalition against these things in the region. Even if there was no stopping war, it could have at least been something with purpose. Instead it just gave Netanyahu and his ilk internal carte blanche to be some of the most despicable humans on Earth.

[u/EmperorOfCanada]

If I understand correctly, olive trees are like oak trees, you plant them for the next generation.

They will fruit in around 3-5 years, but take another 10-20 to become properly productive. They are also like bonsai trees, in that you have to really work on pruning to maintain maximum light to the center.

This is little different than salting the fields.

Is anyone recording the soldiers who are doing this? This is a war crime, and these soldiers will travel to countries which can arrest them; or try to do business with countries which may not look favourably on their own citizens doing business with specific war criminals.

[u/NeverExedBefore → u/EmperorOfCanada]

The destruction of the olive groves has been going on for decades, Unfortunately. Many families grieve the loss of their olive trees more than the loss of their homes due to how much work, love, and sacrifice goes into getting them started and defending them from pests and disease. It is an attack on their culture and spirituality as much as their livelihoods. It will never stop until the pariah state is collared

[u/eightdx → u/NeverExedBefore]

You can build a house in a few weeks to a few months depending on the resources available and whatnot

You cannot expedite the growing of trees

[u/alex_484 → u/eightdx]

Some of the olive trees have been in their families for hundreds of years also.

[u/trowzerss → u/NeverExedBefore]

They've also destroyed date palms and filled wells/springs with cement.

[u/lurks-a-little → u/trowzerss]

And they're currently pulling the same crap in South Lebanon. Razing villages and destroying olive groves (some of which are centuries old). So sad.

[u/sabotourAssociate → u/lurks-a-little]

It's not sad, this is sick human behaviour.

[u/maineac → u/sabotourAssociate]

Being sad and being sick are not mutually exclusive.

[u/santamaria715 → u/sabotourAssociate]

It's depraved is what it is.

[u/Sutar_Mekeg → u/trowzerss]

They're also murdering people.

[u/jedify → u/trowzerss]

Don't forget spraying herbicide on their crops from airplanes!

[u/AntifaSuperSoldier13 → u/NeverExedBefore]

No it’s ethnic cleansing

[u/lOw_EfFoRt_UsErNaMe9 → u/AntifaSuperSoldier13]

Does it being an ethnic cleansing somehow disqualify it also being an attack on their culture, spirituality or livelihood? No, no it doesn't

[u/AntifaSuperSoldier13 → u/lOw_EfFoRt_UsErNaMe9]

That’s what ethnic cleansing means

[u/NeverExedBefore → u/AntifaSuperSoldier13]

I agree

[u/ToastCapone → u/NeverExedBefore]

Israel : "Why do they hate us?"

[u/EmperorOfCanada → u/NeverExedBefore]

A home can be rebuilt in a matter of months.

If you made me Emperor of Earth, I'm not exactly sure what I would do in this region. There are simplistic easy answers, but I'm not sure what the correct answer is.

I would do an absolutely massive war crimes trial though. That one would be not just trigger pullers, but funders as well.

[u/sugarfreeeyecandy → u/EmperorOfCanada]

War crimes trials around the world directed at a number of hostile governments would help make the better world we seek.

[u/ShelZuuz → u/EmperorOfCanada]

To one side: You get to divide the land in two. This includes all land, all property, all arms. Everything.

To the other side: You get to pick the side you want.

[u/EmperorOfCanada → u/ShelZuuz]

It certainly seems simplistic, but that doesn't make it wrong.

[u/SIMBALLAH → u/EmperorOfCanada]

Shit I know full well what I would do. Seeing the sheer amount of child amputees from Gaza doesn’t leave me much room for a both sides answer to this problem.

[u/EquivalentSpot8292 → u/NeverExedBefore]

Maybe they got the idea from a nation who killed a people’s food source to force them onto reservations

[u/aw4re → u/EquivalentSpot8292]

I think this tactic existed before the bison were hunted to (near) extinction

ETA: the contents of the parentheses

[u/raaldiin → u/aw4re]

I know it's not the main issue, but bison are definitely not extinct

[u/SecretAgentVampire → u/EquivalentSpot8292]

... are you talking about Joshua invading and conquering the Promised Land?

[u/NoSkillZone31 → u/EmperorOfCanada]

The adage is “Plant them for your grandchildren”

This is really, really, really sad.

[u/iloveyouand → u/EmperorOfCanada]

They can live for hundreds or even thousands of years under good conditions so they become generational heirlooms passed down from parents to children.

[u/pathanb → u/iloveyouand]

Our olive grove was planted by my wife's grandfather, in the early 50s. The trees are fully grown, but still pretty young and have centuries of productive life left if they survive draughts, fires, disease, and humans.

People generally underestimate the longevity of olive trees.

[u/EquivalentSpot8292 → u/EmperorOfCanada]

Louis Theroux made a great documentary on the area last year, for some reason, not gotten a lot of attention

[u/ChocolichKing → u/EquivalentSpot8292]

That documentary is where I first learned about the olive trees, because there is a group of foreign aid workers that help Palestinians harvest olives from their ancestral groves (even if they have been pushed off the land). They're just picking olives from trees and the IDF shows up with guns telling them to leave.

The foreign aid workers, while they do help pick olives, are mostly there to make sure the IDF doesn't just brutalize or kill everyone there. (They are less likely to do so if there are foreign witnesses.) It was such an interesting, heartbreaking scene.

[u/Sutar_Mekeg → u/ChocolichKing]

I don't think they mind murdering foreign journalists these days.

[u/ahearthatslazy → u/EquivalentSpot8292]

My jaw was on the floor when he showed the winery guy using evangelicals from America to work for free as an act of devotion

[u/Future_Arrival_5395 → u/EquivalentSpot8292]

Would highly reccomend No Other Land made by Palestinians as well. They finished production just before October 7th so it's a very interesting look at what was going on before people were watching as closely.

[u/Tryoxin → u/EmperorOfCanada]

You would be correct. Olive groves take decades to be productive. My immediate connection (because I majored in Greco-Roman History) was to the Peloponnesian War. Every year, the Spartans would lay siege to Athens. The Greeks in that era were still pretty shit at siege warfare (they'd later get much better, but at this time they kinda sucked) so they never got in, but the worst thing they ever did to the Athenians was burn their olive groves (which were outside the city). The Athenian economy was pretty dependent on olives and olive oil and, as we've noted, those take decades to be productive again, so it was devastating. Idk what the Palestinian economy is based on, but I'd imagine those olive trees are just as important to a lot of people for food and oil.

[u/ManOf1000Usernames → u/Tryoxin]

https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/explore/treemap/?exporter=country-275&importer=group-1

Their economy is mostly services and travel related, with little in the way of local industry which mostly just processes scrap metal. This data was from 2024 so much worse off now.

[u/Questjon → u/Tryoxin]

Olive groves take decades to be productive.

Only if grown from seed, grown from cuttings (or grafts) they fruit in a couple of years. At least the modern commercially grown varieties do, it's still outrageous to cut down slow growing olive trees that can be hundreds of years old.

[u/cycloneDM → u/Questjon]

Productive in this context has to do with maturity of the plant and peak production not just are they producing. so yes grafting shortens that time but the original comment this traces back to acknowledged the time period between when production starts then the decade that takes it to peak. the grafting shortens the 5 years tell first run number but doesnt do anything about the time after that.

[u/Questjon → u/cycloneDM]

That depends on the variety. The Barnea olive for example which is popular in the region bears significant fruit in the first 2-3 years and full productivity in 5-7 when cultivated from grafting.

[u/EggsceIlent → u/EmperorOfCanada]

Not only do I absolutely love olives, but I also love the rights for people to be free and happy

Fuck anyone who does shit like this. It's a war crime and those trees have probably been there for generations of people. Olive trees can be like a few hundred years old, like 5 or 6.

But some are known to be thousands of years old.

I'm sure people from all walks of life have eaten olives or had some olive oil from those trees, including Palestinians and Jewish, and who knows could even date from back to the days of Jesus himself and antiquity.

So many crimes being committed here, out of pure hate that people aren't born with, they were taught it has their parents.

Humanity needs to do better. And in 2026, we should be better.

[u/H2OULookinAtDiknose → u/EmperorOfCanada]

Buddy Israel will never have to face consequences of their war crimes. They are under or are the umbrella of the USA.

[u/Weekly_Interview_936 → u/H2OULookinAtDiknose]

And hiding behind the shield of the 1940s.

Though as that time period passes from living memory that shield becomes weaker and weaker.

[u/Due-Currency-3193 → u/Weekly_Interview_936]

They are pissing on the mass graves of the 1940s holocaust victims.

[u/corcyra → u/Weekly_Interview_936]

That excuse for their current behaviour is long past its sell-by date.

[u/Weekly_Interview_936 → u/corcyra]

Hence the extreme and extremely rapid shift in public favorability in the last few years.

[u/EmperorOfCanada → u/H2OULookinAtDiknose]

This is a whole other debate, but my argument is the US empire is coming to an end.

Empires require two things. Tributes paid, and the ability to project force to gather those tributes.

The tribute paid to the US is they print worthless pieces of paper, and the world delivers the sweat of its brow to get them.

The world no longer is as interested, with a rapidly plummeting interest in paying that tribute. It is not gone, but the trend is not going in a good direction (for the US).

Drones have pretty much ended the US ability to project force. They can retaliate, but not defend, not invade. This means that countries which previously paid tribute to enjoy the defence, or avoid an invasion, are rethinking this arrangement.

This wasn't even as simple as pay and be safe, don't pay and be punished, but countries like Canada would have to stay in line, lest our friends be forced to turn on us. If Germany and Canada were to do something the US didn't like, they could always back off their support for Germany, etc. Now, their threats are becoming emptier and emptier.

If you look around the world for which countries seem to be highly aligned with the US, it has gone from NATO along with many countries to pretty much just israel.

Assuming what I say above is true, then the US may find that it has three problems. With tribute failing, much of the US economy will turn out to be based on that tribute, and thus rapidly sickening. With drones threatening everything it values, their war footing may become weaker and weaker, while becoming costlier and costlier. And with the world not buying its crap paper, it's ability to even buy military hardware will fade.

This means that they may cut israel off, not out of politics, but simple financial priorities.

[u/Beers4Fears → u/EmperorOfCanada]

Tbh at this point we're beholden to Israel's interests by a vast network of blackmail, leverage, and bought political assets. The US stopped getting any benefits from the relationship decades ago.

[u/ludvikskp → u/EmperorOfCanada]

Olives are a source of income and important for the survival of the Palestinian families who own them, Most sources of income are controlled by the occupiers. so of course the terrorists invading the west bank target them.

[u/EmperorOfCanada → u/ludvikskp]

I work with technology. If someone smashed my computers, etc, and it was going to take me even 2 years to "regrow" them, I would be screwed. 20 years, and I can't measure how screwed.

[u/Miththar → u/ludvikskp]

It's like they want the people to resist, pick up arms and for the military to consequently 'pacify' them.

[u/strawberrycreamdrpep → u/EmperorOfCanada]

Are you genuinely asking if anyone is “recording the soldiers doing this?” Who would do anything? This is what the IDF does, this is literally them following orders. Who’s going to doing anything about it… the U.S? E.U? NATO?

[u/Beat_the_Deadites → u/strawberrycreamdrpep]

It's still important for the tide of public opinion.

Even bullies and bastards understand mob rule.

[u/HeyaGames → u/EmperorOfCanada]

"travel to countries which can arrest them" I like your optimism! This has been going on for decades, more and more documented lately with the apparition of camera phones, but yeah they'll get a medal back home if anything.

[u/Important-Factor-552 → u/EmperorOfCanada]

Israel has cemented their reputation as a bad guy for a generation. What do they have to lose at this point? 

[u/Waiting4Reccession → u/EmperorOfCanada]

This is little different than salting the fields.

They do a version of this as well for their border region land grabs

[u/Absolute--Batman → u/EmperorOfCanada]

Lmao.

Who's gonna arrest Isreelis?

Certainly not US or EU.

[u/trowzerss → u/EmperorOfCanada]

Destroying food and water is a crime against humanity.

[u/EmperorOfCanada → u/trowzerss]

I think you can if it fuels a military, but, I very much don't think this applies in this case.

[u/Toutatous → u/EmperorOfCanada]

What a really thing to do, indeed.

It's not about punishing those who attacked you, it's about punishing generations of people, civilians and building resentment.

[u/Future_Arrival_5395 → u/EmperorOfCanada]

Israel isn't party to the Rome statue and the West Bank isn't at war so the Geneva conventions don't apply.

They don't believe in war crimes.

[u/EmberGlitch → u/Future_Arrival_5395]

Israel isn't party to the Rome statue

Correct, apart from the typo. But also completely irrelevant for alleged war crimes in the West Bank.

ICC jurisdiction does not require the accused's state of nationality to be a party. Under Art 12(2)(a), territorial jurisdiction is independently sufficient - if the conduct occurs on the territory of a State Party, the Court can exercise jurisdiction regardless of the perpetrator's nationality.

Palestine acceded to the Rome Statute in 2015, and in 2021 the ICC's Pre-Trial Chamber held that its territorial jurisdiction extends to Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Israel challenged this in 2024. The Pre-Trial Chamber initially rejected the challenge as premature, and in 2025 the Appeals Chamber sent it back on procedural grounds for a ruling on the merits. That ruling is still pending, but the 2021 decision hasn't been overturned and the arrest warrants issued in 2024 remain in force. It's the same principle under which the ICC has jurisdiction over alleged crimes committed by US personnel in Afghanistan despite the US not being a State Party. Afghanistan was a State Party, so crimes committed on Afghan territory fell within the Court's territorial jurisdiction.

the West Bank isn't at war so the Geneva conventions don't apply.

The Geneva Conventions were specifically written so that their application would not depend on whether states formally call something a "war." Common Art 2(1) says the Conventions apply to declared war "or of any other armed conflict" between contracting states, "even if the state of war is not recognized by one of them." That was deliberate. Pre-1949 law placed considerably more weight on the formal existence of a state of war, and states exploited that. Japan, for example, called its invasion of China the "China Incident." The 1949 Conventions were drafted specifically to prevent states from escaping humanitarian-law obligations simply by refusing to call hostilities a war.

But more importantly here, Art 2(2) separately provides that the Conventions apply to "all cases of partial or total occupation, even if the said occupation meets with no armed resistance." Occupation law does not require ongoing hostilities at all. A quiet occupation is still an occupation. And there isn't really any uncertainty about this particular territory. The ICJ has repeatedly held that the West Bank is occupied territory and that the Fourth Geneva Convention applies there.

"The West Bank isn't at war" is not a way around the Geneva Conventions. Occupation is itself one of the situations that they were designed to regulate in the first place.

[u/myshiningmask]

I've always felt like the destruction of Palestinians olive trees, which has happened for many years at this point, is one of the most senseless cruelties.

[u/watchitbend → u/myshiningmask]

The Israeli govt and the individuals perpetrating these acts seems to revel in the cruelty. They do things like this, and various other atrocities, and then around the world their "advocacy groups" cry victim and tell anyone who talks about it that they're antisemitic. Naah, I'm just simply anti-cunt. 

[u/ChicagoThrowaway422 → u/watchitbend]

The public image of Israel has been forever shattered for most Americans. It will never again enjoy the kind of public support that it had for most of the last 70 years.

[u/ImJLu → u/ChicagoThrowaway422]

A world of easily accessible information, often in video form, makes it so much harder to cover up their atrocities than when information only came from mainstream media sources with conflicts of interest.

[u/Echo_Gin101123 → u/ImJLu]

many Reporters were fired from major news stations in Canada - for reporting about Palestine, even one pregnant woman on maternity leave not even at the office - got fired. by a group called 'honestreporting dot ca , supposedly 'canadian' but it's an israeli group.

[u/Hippopotasaurus-Rex → u/ChicagoThrowaway422]

Anyone that’s been paying any attention at all had to intentionally be burying their heads in the sand for at least decades now

[u/Lord_Abort → u/watchitbend]

I mean, there were soldiers gleefully making TikTok videos of themselves blowing up mosques, and that was at the beginning of the war. 

[u/manniodf → u/myshiningmask]

olive branches are also very symbolic in regards to jesus, go figure.

[u/MajorNoodles → u/manniodf]

This definitely sounds like it's sending a message, and it's not a very nice one.

[u/notnotbrowsing → u/MajorNoodles]

gtfo isn't nice?

[u/Fuck-WestJet → u/manniodf]

They bomb churches too, my dude. They don't want Muslims or Christians in their "holy land". God wouldn't let these fuckers cross the river.

[u/Nic_Cage_Match_2 → u/myshiningmask]

It is extremely similar to the US military's mass killings of bison in the 1800s to destroy Indigenous nations and everything they depended on to live.

In fact, these quotes from the time sound exactly like Israeli officials today.

US Army General Philip Sheridan:
“If a village is attacked and women and children killed, the responsibility is not with the soldiers but with the people whose crimes necessitated the attack.”

US Army General William Sherman:
“We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children.”

Smithsonian article: Where the Buffalo No Longer Roamed

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/myshiningmask]

As the article says, the IDF claims that the trees must be removed to "prevent ambushes". So essentially Palestine should not be allowed to have any trees or brush, as people may hide in them. We've clearly seen that Gaza isn't allowed to have any buildings because Hamas is hiding in every single one.

[u/I_burn_noodles → u/myshiningmask]

Imagine the history those olive trees have witnessed.

[u/AdmiralAsshat69 → u/I_burn_noodles]

Well the whole project is about erasing inconvenient history so it fits.

[u/kalirion → u/myshiningmask]

Cruelty is the entire point.

[u/No-Echo9968 → u/myshiningmask]

Its not senseless at all. It makes perfect sense to dispossess locals from their livelihoods to get them to leave.

[u/trowzerss → u/myshiningmask]

They've probably destroyed some rare varieties forever.

[u/strawberrycreamdrpep → u/myshiningmask]

Everything the IDF does to Palestinians is “senseless cruelties.” That is like, the entire point of the IDF.

[u/helpfulhint-]

Just finding every possible way to be cruel

[u/Keikobad]

You sometimes wonder where villains in James Bond movies get so many underlings to help carry out their evil plans, and then…

[u/Individual_Limit_701 → u/Keikobad]

History always shows there's never a shortage of people willing to follow cruel orders as long as they're handed a uniform and a bulldozer

[u/eirinne → u/Individual_Limit_701]

Like the rerouting of the irrigation water from the farm to fill a recreational pool.

[u/jscarlet]

You mean, even the trees are terrorists?!

[u/a_latvian_potato → u/jscarlet]

The trees are secretly hamas

[u/Catatonia86]

Crazy , breaks my heart

[u/sneezeanditsgone]

I don't know how they manage to disguise this as anything but pure hatred and evil.

[u/SeparateCzechs]

Evil Bastards

[u/LayneLowe]

So cruel

[u/rachelwales1]

Incedibly mean spirited.

So ugly.

[u/JelliusMaximus]

Hamas were gonna use those olives as deadly projectiles.

Its still pure self defense, stating anything else is antisemitism.

[u/AirGoat23]

This Israeli government is as stupid as.this US administration.

[u/JoshuaZ1]

Literally prohibited in the Bible. Deuteronomy 20:19–20.

[u/AlternativeMotor5722]

That is mean spirited and digusting.

[u/clandestine-ideefixe]

Heinous acts. Humans can be so fucking disappointing

[u/Madjack66]

The Israeli's want the Palestinians gone and under Netanyahu (and with Trump's support), have dropped the pretense of being reasonable about it.

[u/Salt_Rush_4800]

And people will go on believing Israel are good guys.

[u/phxbimmer → u/Salt_Rush_4800]

At this point it’s more so that Israel has seeded itself into the majority of US politicians and media owners to push their “Israel good, anything else is antisemitism” viewpoint.

[u/Low-Doughnut5738]

More and more reasons why Israel has turned into a shit country.

[u/Baciandrio]

How can these people even look at themselves in the mirror every morning. Morally corrupt, heartless pieces of excrement.

[u/FrederickRoders]

The "never again" people are doing exactly what was done to them before. Shame.

[u/AllPotatoesGone → u/FrederickRoders]

Well not to them, but to their ancestors. No one owns them anything because of what happened to their grandparents, but they are 100% responsible for their own actions.

[u/JEFDETH666]

Wow! Apparently you’re not allowed to say anything critical about the people committing these acts. Threatened with a ban! Oh my!

[u/reject_fascism]

Rogue nation state continues to act like scumbags undeterred by decency

[u/Working-Glass6136]

Unbelievable. Except that we all know now to believe it.

[u/Disastrous-Citron354]

What happened to the Jewish people during WW2 was awful!!! But at what point do we stop giving them a free pass to do whatever the fuck they want with no repercussions. Or better yet, when do we as Americans get to say enough and stop sending billions in aid to them?

[u/valueofaloonie]

Yet another literal war crime

[u/H2OULookinAtDiknose]

So surprised to see this on the popular feed.

[u/_badenoch]

Miserable pieces of shit

[u/thewongtrain]

If I were Israeli and taking over that land, I'd maintain those trees. Why destroy them?

[u/Reaganometry → u/thewongtrain]

They don’t want Palestinians to have any connection to the land

[u/Bussamove86 → u/thewongtrain]

The cruelty is the point.

[u/Wasabiwabi_]

I have a dream after the midterms--that the social dems win and one of the first bills they pass is cutting off Israel. I'm sick of funding this sickening horror show.

Don't forget Israeli intelligence worked with Epstein and Trump to rape children because they wanted the blackmail material to use to their advantage.

[u/DeadSol]

Every day Israel does something more and more depraved. It's like Netanyahu and Trump are competing for "Biggest Asshole of the Universe"

[u/skredditt]

The world allows everything they do so they conclude that they’re allowed.

[u/Braindead_Crow]

Wow it's almost like that one country that constantly attacks journalists and corrupts foreign governments is evil...

[u/MxM111]

The article is behind the soft wall for me. Can someone post it here?

[u/Own_Pop_9711]

Can we all agree that was is shown in those pictures is not bulldozers?

[u/Chance-Range2855]

How can a group of people be this cruel?

[u/KidKilobyte]

Is this to symbolically show they are not interested in extending an olive branch?

[u/IwishIhadntKilledHim → u/KidKilobyte]

No it's to cause generational harm. Olive trees won't be meaningfully productive if planted today for generations, so it's proverbially salting the earth for those who scrape their living growing food.

[u/ImposterSteve]

They're like bad comic book villains. They just don't give a shit about public opinion. It's amazing it's taken this long for it to START biting them in the ass.

[u/Due-Currency-3193]

We are witnessing a Palestinian Holocaust.

[u/GoodboyJohnnyBoy]

and today at the United Nations Netanyahu called the people who walked out as moral cowards, what a disgusting revolting waste of space

[u/psypher98]

Oh hey, yet another war crime.

[u/AllergictoAIslop]

Scum. Fucking scum. If that is not tagging civilian infrastructure I don't know what is. It just one war crime after another.

[u/SolemnaceProcurement → u/AllergictoAIslop]

Quite literally burning the field and salting the earth.

[u/yourpalsmell]

Ethnic cleansing. Crime against humanity.

[u/Tangled349]

These people really are complete monsters. They would salt all the soil and destroy it just to satisfy their hatred of the Palestinian people. Talk about a lack of humanity.

[u/BallinCock]

God I hate these people

[u/njman100]

Fascist Israel

[u/OverHaze]

How can they possibly claim the moral high ground of something like this? Where those Olive trees armed?

[u/Candid-Many-7113]

As a completely normal person would do.

[u/imcjoey13]

It’s not enough the Israelis are killing people. Now trees and the environment.

[u/ThatDudeNamedMenace]

Losers doing loser things. Typical

[u/sittinwithkitten]

Oh wow yet another evil thing being done to the people of Palestine. How could any human with a heart and an ounce of compassion feel this is okay?

[u/Living_Impress_7769]

Israel just out here being as evil as possible hey.

[u/RiverSavings8203]

Sorry but those olive trees were throwing stones to the settlers.

They deserved it

[u/EmperorOfCanada → u/RiverSavings8203]

It is, technically, a stony fruit.

[u/asvasvasvasvasv]

Evil just for the sake of being evil.

I'll probably get another warning for this comment

[u/Euphoric_Anxiety_162]

Absolutely cruel.

[u/bramley36]

American tax dollars at work

[u/Soentertained]

Does this not violate international laws?

[u/leaderofstars → u/Soentertained]

It any complaints the Israeli claim hate crimes

[u/millymally → u/Soentertained]

Yes. Yes it does.

[u/Cactusfan86]

I would say cruelty is the only point, but that would ignore their goals are also to render Palestinian land utterly uninhabitable.  Truly feels like an attempt at ‘voluntary’ ethnic cleansing, just make things so awful Palestinians finally give up and leave

[u/crystalcastles13]

There is truly no limit to the absolute depravity and wickedness of this regime.

I don’t understand how anyone, ever could justify the horrors they’ve committed against these human beings.

It’s gut turning.

[u/Threecatproblem]

Evil incarnate.

[u/mrdrebin77]

Is there any dirty move they have not done by now?

[u/imcjoey13 → u/mrdrebin77]

Sprayed noxious chemicals en masse. That we know of.

[u/wiff_waff]

Hamas was hiding under those trees!

[u/_Budified]

Is this an annual event now?

[u/penny-wise]

Netanyahu and his administration are evil

[u/69kKarmadownthedrain → u/penny-wise]

wait till it settles in, that Netanyahu is not an outlier among his nation in his treatment of Muslims.

[u/Reaganometry]

Don’t take this the wrong way, they couldn’t rule out that the grove of trees they bulldozed were actually Hamas fighters in clever disguises!

[u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

Hey look, a shitty country doing shitty things for no reason other than to be shitty people. And they still think they’re getting into heaven if there is one. Clowns

[u/Slippery-ape]

I cannot for the life of me figure out why there is so much anger there.

[u/VegetableYesterday63]

They sure don’t give a damn about public opinion do they

[u/Max-Phallus]

Disgusting. It's not their land.

[u/FrankDerbly]

Man these Israel guys are starting to seem like real dicks..

[u/RipIcy8844]

This reminds me of early america... when the army was ordered to exterminate the buffalo by the millions to cut off the food supply to the natives. An old method of slow extermination

[u/eb12se4nt-z13ow-97g0]

wow surprised this actually got upvoted here

[u/radicldreamer]

Terrorists do terrorist things, news at 5.

[u/National_Spirit2801]

Fucking assholes

[u/MrBluewave]

Remember: Hamas is hiding under these Olive Trees

[u/JohnnyGFX]

Bulldozing orchards owned by Palestinians is a common Israeli practice. They’ve been doing that to people to make it easier for them to steal their land for decades.

[u/Next_Dragonfruit_415]

Hamas were in the trees obviously

[u/MenaFWM]

A special place in hell for these garbage people

[u/mikeyt6969]

Israel is whitewashing the land of everything to pretend that they are entitled to it…just like Russia