“And then there is the fear that hangs over every furrow turned,” he explains. “A farmer could plant, wait for the harvest, and then watch a fresh incursion or military operation force him to flee, losing the entire season.”
Despite all of this, Arafat keeps planting. He talks about the land of his “mother and father,” the place from which he draws his daily bread.
He sees the destruction as yet another chapter in what he called “a methodical plan to destroy the agricultural sector,” part of a longer pattern of displacement and settlement-building since 1948 that he said seeks to “uproot Palestinians from their land.”
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