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The Olive Trees of PalestineIt takes a newly planted olive tree between five and seven years to mature and bear fruit. Just one of these trees will bear between 35 and 45 pounds of olives. So the question is: why on earth would anyone in their right mind saw off their branches, set fire to them, and yank their roots out of the ground? That's the question that runs through our current issue of The Link. Click here for the Current Issue. Our Featured Issue from the Archive: What does an olive tree and a fish have in common? Back in 1993, Rosina Hassoun, then a doctoral candidate in biological anthropology, wrote a Link issue about the musht, an endangered fish in the Sea of Galilee. It was one of our most popular issues. Now, 17 years later, Fr. Edward Dillon returns to Dr. Hassoun's key insight to explain the uprooting in Palestine of over one million olive trees. He focuses on two key paragraphs of her article; we have selected the entire article for our featured issue from our archive because, if anything, it rings truer today than when she wrote it. Click here for the Featured Issue. The Archive: Graphic images of all past issues of The Link are accessible on this website and can be downloaded in PDF format. The text of virtually every issue is available for separate downloads. The text is in a form that is printer-friendly and can be quickly e-mailed. Click here to browse through The Archive. The Link Catalog: A Guide to AMEU’s Internet Archive has a brief description of each Link. After looking through the catalog, researchers can return to the archive and search it by year, author or subject. Give a gift subscription to The Link. A gift subscription for one year (five issues) is $20.00. Mail your check with a list of gift recipients to: AMEU, 475 Riverside Drive, Room 245, New York, NY 10115-0245. Each gift recipient also will receive (1) our anthology, "Burning Issues,” a compilation of AMEU’s best Links from the past 40 years, and (2) a copy of the recently revised “The Colonization of Palestine” by Jamil Fayez, a listing of the 452 cities, towns and villages that were destroyed with the establishment of the state of Israel. |
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