The iconic image of an elderly Palestinian farmer Mahfodah Shtayyeh, crying and hugging her olive tree as Israeli settlers attacked captures both the struggle and resistance of the Palestinian farmer and her trees. Shtayyeh says she has raised the tree as her child.

A Poison Tree

BY WILLIAM BLAKE

I was angry with my friend; 

I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

I was angry with my foe: 

I told it not, my wrath did grow. 

And I waterd it in fears,

Night & morning with my tears: 

And I sunned it with smiles,

And with soft deceitful wiles. 

And it grew both day and night. 

Till it bore an apple bright. 

And my foe beheld it