Olive Trees vs Military Orders

Jab'a is a rural village on the Green Line, the supposed border between the West Bank and Israel. We picked olives there for the farmer Abu Firas. In past years he has been the recipient of olive tree saplings from the JAI program that is now sponsoring us to help with the harvest. He needed those saplings to replace the 170 mature trees that Israel uprooted to build the military checkpoint on the border. The saplings were planted on another plot of land, However, they were also uprooted. Again volunteers came to plant more saplings. After the second planting, soldiers returned with the bulldozers and this time issued a military order not to plant anything else on that plot of land, nor try to cultivate it in any way.
Abu Firas will soon be losing another 200 dunams (50 acres), as Jab'a is one of the 5 villages whose land will be among the 4,000 dunams confiscated for the new settlement that Netanyahu announced in September. Of the original 13,000 dunams (3250 acres) belonging to Jab'a there will be only 1,000 left (250 acres).
I asked this farmer what future he sees coming for his sons. He hopes he will have land for them to inherit. He hopes for peace and justice, but, "I see the opposite." Then he asked, "What is justice?" and answered quixotically, "The Qur'an teaches love between the three religions."
On our way out of Jab'a, our bus stopped so we could view the border checkpoint. The olive trees on the Palestinian side did not produce any fruit this year, so it is possible they were poisoned. The trees and land on the other side, though once belonging to Jab'a, are no longer accessible by the previous owners.