The Olive Tree and Its Shadow of Hope
by Nadia Hijab

Massive Israeli incursions and Palestinian deaths, retaliatory suicide bombings and Israeli deaths - this is the stuff of headlines. But smaller stories of peace and justice are also played out every day, and never more so than during the season of the Palestinian olive harvest from mid-October to the end of November.

For days, busloads of Israelis have been pouring into the fields and villages of occupied Palestine to join other activists from around the world in protecting families from Israeli soldiers and settlers so they can pick the glossy blue-black fruit.

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