[news] Media advisory - First Nation trip to Israel

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Media advisory - First Nation trip to Israel

Phil Fontaine, National Chief, Assembly of First Nations stated, "Indigenous people in Canada have much in common with the people of Israel, including a respect of the land...” Perhaps Mr. Fontaine and other native leaders are unaware of Israel’s well documented practices of polluting or stealing water from stolen Palestinian land, uprooting, destroying and stealing olive trees, destroying farmland and olive grows in the process of building Israel’s illegal wall on stolen Palestinian land....It is astounding and so sad to witness Canada’s own native people accepting to visit Israel,...

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4090