Rawabi developer says he will uproot JNF donated trees'

By JPOST.COM STAFF AND TOVAH LAZAROFF 

02/09/2011 09:55

Bashar al-Masri claims "Israeli elements trying to manipulate issue"; follows scathing criticism of trees, Rawabi and JNF by Uri Davis.

  The developer of Rawabi, a new Palestinian city being built in the West Bank, said he will remove some 3,000 trees donated by the Jewish National Fund and replace them with indigenous olive trees, Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported Tuesday.

Bashar al-Masri said that the city's identity is meant to be Palestinian and that Israeli elements are trying "to manipulate the issue," according to the report.

Read the whole article in: The Jerusalem Post 

Personal note from Ariel. A part from an article what appeared in 'the elder of ziyon' about the removing of the trees: 'Interestingly, there have been conifers in Israel since the Jurassic era. I think that might qualify as "indigenous."

The Gharqad tree is the Koran's "tree of the Jews" that will protect them when all the other trees and stones tell believing Muslims where Jews are hiding so the Jews can be slaughtered according to the will of Allah. Some identify it as a boxthorn.

But it appears that Davis believes that this heretical tree is the conifer'. (Source:the elder of ziyon)

Very bad idea to let it happen, the city and the replacement of the trees, in the middle of the country that HaShem is given us...... . Ariel