Pine and olive. Israel and its neighbors. Shamir I.

Palestinian land has been watered with blood for centuries. The Egyptians, Chaldeans, Canaan, Jews, Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks and other peoples mercilessly exterminated each other for the right to own this land. At first, the crusaders, and then the participants of the first “humanitarian interventions” of the League of Nations, were sent there.

it is difficult to believe that this iconic stony earth under the hot deserted sun is the place for which not centuries, but for millennia spilled Blood.

it is spilled now. On the western bank of the Jordan River and in Gaza, at the Golan heights and in Arabic Jerusalem. The war has been going on for many years. Some say that it began in 1947, when the Israeli soldiers expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, others-that back in 1930, when the Zionist colonists who moved from Europe began to drive local peasants from their land.

as Would it be, for more than seventy years there is no peace under olives. And now in Palestine, in a tiny territory the size of less than the Moscow region is a struggle not for life, but for death. The struggle goes beyond each stone, for every piece of blood impregnated with the blood of dry land.