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Settlers clash with rabbis guarding Palestinian olive harvest near Hebron
By Reuters
Tags: Israel News, Hebron 

Jewish settlers clashed with activists of the Rabbis for Human Rights movement near the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday as they protected Palestinians beginning the annual olive harvest.

Israeli police and soldiers grappled with settlers who tried to drive off local Palestinians and international supporters of Palestinian rights in the West Bank.

"This is just the beginning of the olive harvest which will be going on for the next two months," said the executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights, Arik Ascherman.
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He said activists were going to 40 Palestinian villages to protect olive growers and uphold their right to work the land, and harvest. They would act "as human shields" if necessary.

A settler woman screamed "Murderer, murderer" at the rabbi, and settlers angrily shouted down any activists trying to explain their aims to TV reporters.

The West Bank olive harvest has developed over the past decade into a regular confrontation between Palestinian farmers and Israelis who have settled on nearby land.

Palestinians say settler harassment often turns to encroachment and eventually seizure of more land in the name of settler "security".

"There are those who say all the land of Israel belongs only to the Jewish people," Ascherman said. "Everybody knows these are Palestinian-owned trees."

"It's unfortunate that some people so filled with mistaken religious fervor are choosing to insult, be violent, trying to steal the olives."

The settlers say they want a secure route from the settlement through the olive grove, to a cave regarded as a Jewish holy site.

"The settlers would like to make a path ... as part of their effort to create facts on the ground," Ascherman said. "They've been trying to create this outpost here to take more and more Palestinian land."

Rabbis For Human Rights said in a statement that delegations also joined Palestinians for the olive harvest near Nablus, "where there is a long history of the army preventing agricultural work".

"In several locations olives have already been stolen in recent weeks, and this year's harvest will be all the more difficult because of the recent wave of settler violence," the group said.

Its members would "work to insure that Israeli security forces meet their obligations under international law and the ruling of the Israeli High Court", the statement added
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  1.   Help Palestinians return home to Egypt(Genesis10-13&14) 14:48  |  sam 03/10/08
  2.   Rabbis support Jews- not the murdering enemies of the Jews 15:11  |  Dani 03/10/08
  3.   A Decent HUMAN act 15:22  |  T A Sheppard 03/10/08
  4.   Absurdity of governmental law and order pretends 15:32  |  H.H.M. 03/10/08
  5.   Kol Hakavod! 15:36  |  Eyal 03/10/08
  6.   Absurdity of governmental law and order pretence 15:37  |  H.H.M. 03/10/08
  7.   "You`re killing my right to steal Palestinian olives!!!" 15:41  |  Clickfool 03/10/08
  8.   To # 7 16:19  |  Hans 03/10/08
  9.   take more and more palestinian land?hello!God never promised 16:35  |  glenna 03/10/08
  10.   It is sad 16:51  |  Dave Duncan 03/10/08
  11.   who wants to live with them? 17:14  |  peter 03/10/08
  12.   Bravo to the brave activists who carry out these 17:31  |  Labhras 03/10/08
  13.   A good job. 17:34  |  Jo 03/10/08
  14.   understanding peter - what a honey! 17:40  |  x-ray 03/10/08
  15.   Can you imagine? 17:45  |  W 03/10/08
  16.   # 1 sam 17:47  |  Axel 03/10/08
  17.   #7boris the clucking fool will now tell us 18:03  |  victor hardman 03/10/08
  18.   Settlers claim more or less that Europe... 18:15  |  Dutch Dirk 03/10/08
  19.   Settlers and their ways. 18:25  |  Northern 03/10/08
  20.   Settlers and squatters 18:49  |  Che 03/10/08
  21.   Well done Rabbis for Human Rights & Israeli police... 19:17  |  Silvienne 03/10/08
  22.   Arrest the settlers. 19:19  |  Pablo B 03/10/08
  23.   #9, Preach on, Sister Glenna... 19:21  |  Silvienne 03/10/08
  24.   #2, Dani from Tel Aviv... 19:24  |  Silvienne 03/10/08
  25.   God, you`re a witless bore, Victor Paul Harris Hardman # 17 19:37  |  Clickfool 03/10/08
  26.   Thanks to RHR 19:37  |  Janice 03/10/08
  27.   Dutch Dirt 19:38  |  judith 03/10/08
  28.   # 21 silvienne 19:46  |  Axel 03/10/08
  29.   plenty of thugs to go around, but not plenty of activist clergy 19:47  |  Bronxite10 03/10/08
  30.   For Judith # 27 19:55  |  Clickfool 03/10/08
  31.   Rabbis? 20:10  |  Scharker Yid 03/10/08
  32.   Rabbis ? Just as Palestinians are Partners in Peace, 20:13  |  Bender 03/10/08
  33.   Kol Hakavod to Jews Fighting for Justice - It`s What We Do Best 21:13  |  B`Galil 03/10/08
  34.   Bender you are wrong 21:18  |  Janice 03/10/08
  35.   Jesusalen@hotmail.com 21:26  |  cristian 03/10/08
  36.   Thanks, Arik Ascherman and friends... 21:50  |  Ben Alofs 03/10/08
  37.   A thief is always a thief 21:51  |  Dav 03/10/08
  38.   "Help Palestinians return home to Egypt" - Axel 22:00  |  Betty Anderson 03/10/08
  39.   Rabbis ? Just as Palestinians are Partners in Peace, - Bender 22:06  |  Betty Anderson 03/10/08
  40.   23. Silvienne: Preach on yourself 22:09  |  KUTW 03/10/08
  41.   I stand with the Israeli "settlers" 22:12  |  KUTW 03/10/08
  42.   Absolutely right 22:15  |  KUTW 03/10/08
  43.   Hamas et al say Israel is theirs 22:16  |  KUTW 03/10/08
  44.   Rabbi Ascherman = Hero 22:31  |  EJ 03/10/08
  45.   Olive harvest 22:54  |  brendan 03/10/08
  46.   Leftist harrassers may need to experience frontier justice if 22:59  |  JP 03/10/08
  47.   Settlers has every right to defend themselves from traitors 23:03  |  JP 03/10/08
  48.   Proud and hopeful 23:31  |  PalestinianNDiaspora 03/10/08
  49.   Wisdom of King Soloman.... 23:55  |  Stephen. 03/10/08
  50.   HOW TO KILL GOD 23:57  |  Secular Israeli 03/10/08
  51.   King who? oh you mean Salomon,Salmon, 23:58  |  Stephen. 03/10/08
  52.   Yes, Kol Hakvod to Rabbis For Human Rights 23:59  |  newageblues 03/10/08
  53.   Settlers "clash" with Rabbis 00:49  |  Aaron Levitt 04/10/08
  54.   Settlers are Wrong 01:48  |  Fred Goepfert 04/10/08
  55.   #42 KUTW...wrong again mate 01:53  |  kiwi girl 04/10/08
  56.   Brave JP from Brazil, why don`t you 01:57  |  kiwi girl 04/10/08
  57.   Glenna...that only works if you believe 02:13  |  kiwi girl 04/10/08
  58.   Don`t do anything to the settlers 02:16  |  kiwi girl 04/10/08
  59.   Palestinian Land is in Jordan 02:55  |  Great White North 04/10/08
  60.   God bless these brave Rabbis 03:02  |  Adam 04/10/08
  61.   To Stephen #49 03:30  |  Otto Rand 04/10/08
  62.   #55 Kiwi girl the extreem racist! 03:46  |  Adrian de KLerk 04/10/08
  63.   God bless the Rabbis for Human Rights 03:46  |  Otto Rand 04/10/08
  64.   To Great White North 04:55  |  Simcha 04/10/08
  65.   kiwigirl 05:06  |  Ze`ev 04/10/08
  66.   To Peter from Berlin 05:23  |  Simcha 04/10/08
  67.   Jesusalen 05:45  |  cristian 04/10/08
  68.   Jesusalen 06:09  |  cristian 04/10/08
  69.   Ze`ev 08:38  |  Mohammed 04/10/08
  70.   Clickfool on the "right" to kill human beings 11:02  |  Joe Sittizen 04/10/08
  71.   55. kiwi girl ...wrong again mate 11:08  |  KUTW 04/10/08
  72.   #69 Ze ev - give it a rest hypocrite 11:31  |  Adrian de KLerk 04/10/08
  73.   joe sittizen re war crimes 14:45  |  potobac 04/10/08
  74.   adrian de klerk re minority rights 14:49  |  potobac 04/10/08
  75.   #72 who`s the real hypocrite? 20:03  |  Mohammed 04/10/08
  76.   #62 Adrian de Klerk 09:04  |  Refugee 05/10/08
  77.   #70, Joe sittizen to Clickfool... 16:49  |  Silvienne 07/10/08
  78.   so-called israeli terrorists 20:06  |  martin 18/10/08
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