Things Get Worse

Everyone is saying it. Everyone is feeling occupation squeezing tighter and tighter. More land. More water. More roads. More houses. More everything taken by force so that Palestinians are a people without. The military rerouted the Wall in the village of Jayyous. They "gave back" some of the land they had stolen. The new route took my friend's land. The IDF just came one morning and started uprooting trees. One olive tree: gone. Two olive trees: gone. Three: gone. Thousands. Hundreds of thousands. Gone. Dead. Everything that lives, everything Palestinian, including the olive tree, is in danger of extinction. Life is not sacred in the holy land anymore.