This article was VERY, VERY OFFENSIVE as this s***-sheet newspaper tries to PUT A SMILEY FACE on a WAR-CRIMINAL SIEGE and OCCUPATION!!!!
"About 590 checkpoints and barriers remained in and around the West Bank as of late September, according to UN monitors. Checkpoints within the West Bank are still in place to control movement between Palestinian cities: Travelers leaving places like Nablus through the Huwwara checkpoint can’t be certain whether they will pass quickly through a loosely patrolled post, or meet a heavier concentration of troops with a rigorous check."
And that is NOT EVEN MENTIONING GAZA!!!!
"Reshaping olive industry to boost Palestinian economy; Farmers co-op seeks fair-trade advantage" by Howard Schneider, Washington Post | October 25, 2009
A Palestinian woman sorted olives during the harvest in the West Bank village of Kabatyeh near Jenin last week. Palestinians are counting on the crop to boost their economy. (Mohammed Ballas/ Associated Press)
BERQIN, West Bank - Olive trees are an economic and cultural staple of Palestinian society. Ancient stone presses still dot a landscape where some 10 million trees fill terraced hillside groves and rise in impromptu nooks. The harvest season in October and November is a community affair, marked by family gatherings and festivals. Olives are also the largest Palestinian crop....
For centuries, olive harvesting here has been a mostly local industry.
Yes, the SAME LAND ISRAEL is STEALING MORE and MORE!!!
Also see:
"More than 30 Israeli settlers.... set fire to fields and olive trees.... during a rampage in the West Bank."
Somehow THAT BEHAVIOR gets OVERLOOKED in this PoS propaganda piece!, too!
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Farmers, their relatives, and neighbors beat the trees with sticks or strip the olives from branches by hand, then cart them to a local press and sell or trade the oil in nearby markets. Harvest workers keep a share of the crop for their labor, and olive press owners keep a share of the oil - a testament to the small-scale, bartered nature of the undertaking. That model can help sustain a household, but in a new factory on the outskirts of this northern West Bank village, an effort is underway to reshape the olive industry so that it can help sustain a national economy.
Oh, I SEE! When it BECOMES ADVANTAGEOUS for western business to help Palestinians they are RIGHT IN THERE, huh? With a SIDE BENEFIT of DESTROYING a WAY of LIFE!
With savvy marketing in the United States and Europe, and fair-trade and organic certifications that attract top dollar from Western consumers, a six-year-old farmers cooperative is breaking some of the traditional bounds of the olive industry and beginning to pull in hard currency from abroad.
Hey, I AM HAPPY the PALESTINIANS can get ANY MONEY; however, does it HAVE TO BE by the GLOBALIST BUSINESS MODEL? THEY HAVE MANY MORE PRODUCTS to EXPORT from GAZA -- if Iz-ray-HELL would ALLOW IT!
The Palestine Fair Trade Association now has 1,200 farmers and 20 olive press owners who take advantage of a guaranteed “fair trade’’ price from Canaan Fair Trade, an affiliated company set up to market Palestinian-made products abroad. The arrangement means higher prices for the farmers and, perhaps as important, a way to turn the year’s crop into a lump sum of cash, rather than the trickle of money many received by selling oil or olives through the year.
As you READ FURTHER you will SEE the HAND of the GLOBALISTS!
Developed by a US-trained anthropologist, the venture sent 350 tons of olive oil to the United States and Europe in 2008, about $4 million worth, with projections that the amount could triple in a couple of years.
And since the WaPo is promoting this, you KNOW it is AGENDA-PUSHING to CONTROL the PALESTINIAN ECONOMY!
Canaan Fair Trade has become the chief olive oil supplier to the Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap company, and is breaking into boutique food stores with its own gourmet olive oil brand. There are smaller sales to major grocers like Whole Foods and Sainsbury’s.
Oh, no, you don't want to sell to them: Boston Globe Finally Covers a Whole Protest
Another short-lived agenda push, huh, Glob?
“The value is in exports and long-term relationships’’ with overseas buyers, said Nasser Abufarha, who returned to the region of his childhood with a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin and an aim to “give a space in modern society’’ for olive-harvesting families....
Yeah, FORGET about SERVING YOUR OWN PEOPLE FIRST! Get INTO the GLOBALIST GAME and start working through BANKS!
Btw, they ARE in MODERN SOCIETY as it is because THEY EXIST! I know the guy means well, but that is kind of a western attitude full of elitism, isn't it?
The domestic focus of the industry has put another clamp on earnings.
Yeah, by FEEDING THEMSELVES the Palestinians are screwing up the cash flows!
The same olives whose oil sells for a few dollars a quart locally can be run through the half-million dollar Swedish press at Canaan Fair Trade’s new plant, put in a bottle with an organic and fair trade certified label, and sold for upwards of $50 a quart at retail stores in the United States.
I wouldn't be looking to the this job-destroying, recession-ravaged economy for anything, Palestinians!
See what they want you to do? SELL YOUR FOOD to THEM for CASH so YOU THEN have to BUY FOOD from -- WESTERN FOOD CORPORATIONS!
NO WONDER the CIA's favorite paper is pushing this AmeriKan-led agenda!
Projects like that are considered critical to boosting the $6 billion Palestinian economy, and trying to lessen its current dependence on international aid.
Not really, though!
And WHAT AID? It NEVER GETS THROUGH to GAZA!!!
Btw, WHY NO MENTION of GAZA here?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who says he wants to improve the West Bank economy and cultivate an “economic peace’’ regardless of whether talks toward creation of a Palestinian state are progressing, has relaxed some movement restrictions throughout the area to boost economic activity.
I will file that right where it belongs (sound of toilet flushing).
Lie after lie after lie after lie in my Zionist War Daily.
But the effort has been spotty. About 590 checkpoints and barriers remained in and around the West Bank as of late September, according to UN monitors. Checkpoints within the West Bank are still in place to control movement between Palestinian cities: Travelers leaving places like Nablus through the Huwwara checkpoint can’t be certain whether they will pass quickly through a loosely patrolled post, or meet a heavier concentration of troops with a rigorous check.
Yeah, MINIMIZE the WAR CRIMINAL OCCUPATION, MSM!
What a ZIONIST TOOL!
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