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Source: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/arson-the-arsonists-tale/
The Arsonists Claim to Love the Land They Are Destroying
(Times of Israel) Renee Garfinkel - The arsonists attacking Israel are not loners. They are adults and children, recruited and organized by terrorist leaders, Hamas and others, to set fire to fields, forests and farms in Israel. The arsonists' disregard, even contempt for land contrasts sharply with Israel's culture of nurturing its land. Israeli children are brought up with stories of heroes who drained the swamps, planted orchards and invented creative ways to irrigate them; heroes who made the desert bloom, and continue to maintain it today. The land itself is revered. The land is an active character in Israeli mythology, in its history, religion and culture. Oddly, Palestinian leadership who back the arsonists claims to love the land they are destroying. They're loving it to death. Their drama, playing out daily on a fragile ecology, is simple: "If I can't have it, then no one will have it."