Elliot Bruce has written an important article on the International Solidarity Movement's website showing how Israeli policy is strangling Palestinian life in the Jordan valley.

Palestinian farmers are being squeezed out. They are being separated from their markets, they are being denied water from the river Jordan and Israeli bulldozers trash their fields and orchards.The eastern side of the new apartheid wall is going to surround many of th communities chopping them into little bantustan zones.

If the farmers go to court to try to get justice they have to spend tens of thousands of dollars in order to be lucky enough to win a few thousand dollars compensation.

The Jordan valley is NOT Israeli territory it is illegally occupied and dozens of Zionist farms and settlements are being built there to create "facts on the ground"
Such is the reality ofthe occupation of Palestine by Israel.
David