Palestinian olive oil threatened by security wall

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The saying goes that the personal has become political. Now even the olive oil in your salad dressing can be political.

British supporters of the Palestinian cause have launched an extra virgin olive oil grown in the lush groves of the occupied territories.

Profits will go to Palestinian farming cooperatives in the West Bank, where access to markets is limited. But this particular harvest is in danger, they say, from Israel's controversial security wall, which is destroying some olive groves and dividing Palestinian agricultural lands.

Distributors say they have already sold three times the number of bottles that they expected to.

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A Palestinian girl, Maram Sanakre, sorts out her belongings in a room which was searched by Israeli troops yesterday in Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus. Israeli troops searched several houses looking for wanted militants.
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1. The "security wall" will end up getting a million Americans killed some

day. This "wall" is in violation of the original U.N. mandate establishing a Jewish state. The wall cannot stand and will not stand lacking the moral authority inherent in that mandate.

The route of that wall is a crime against humanity, a form of genocide, and a suicide pact for the people of Israel.

It is a national disgrace and a national disaster that the leaders of both the Repub and Dem Party's in America are letting this wall go forward.