
Art and Struggle: Olive Trees as Symbols of Palestinian Culture, Food, and Heritage
Written by Caoimhghin O Croidheain
in
Visual Arts
"I hugged the olive tree. It was precious to me, so I hugged it. I felt like I was hugging my child. I'd raised the tree like my child. They attacked around 500 trees filled with olives. Each tree could have filled two sacks of olives. They destroyed my olive…