[Peace-discuss] Fw: Palm Trees Never Lie

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

Bob W. received this from a fellow activist in Stone Mountain, 
Georgia and thought is might be interesting in light of  the information M. 
B. received at World Harvest recently.

JAN K.



Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 2:20 PM

Subject: FW: Palm Trees Never Lie





PALM TREES NEVER LIE

By: Mohammed A. Hegazi

The 
palm tree, known to botanists by the Latin name Phoenix

dactylifera, is 
an ancient tree that has been grown in Iraq for

thousands of years. There 
are about 450 varieties (cultivars) in

Iraq. They vary in size, shape and 
colour.

The life cycle of dates begins with pollination. The waxy 
cream

coloured pollen grains from a male tree are manually transferred 
to

the small fragrant whitish flowers on female trees. These are 
borne

on a branched spadix divided into 25 to 150 strands 30-75 cm 
long.

In Iraq and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, pollination 
takes

place in spring. The ovaries of the female flowers then begin to 
swell

and grow into that delicious fruit.

The date fruit is 
initially green and astringent. It is not edible until it
reaches full size 
and its colour becomes red or yellow, depending on

which variety. The 
fruit is then fleshy and crunchy. Some varieties

ripen earlier than 
others. We will assume for the purposes of this

discussion that the 
yellow dates in the photo belong to the latest of

varieties. We would 
then assume that the photo would have been

taken in late September at 
most, when the fruit begins to change

colour from yellow to 
brown.

If the fruit is not harvested, it would fully ripen and fall off 
the tree

in October. By the end of October, it would be a miracle if any 
of

these yellow dates would still be staying on any palm tree in 
Iraq.
However, the Pentagon spin machine is trying to dupe us all by 
telling

us that this photo was taken in December. It shows two 
American

soldiers lifting the lid off that elaborate "spider hole", where 
they claim

they have found Saddam Hussein. Behind the two soldiers, a 
palm tree

stands proud bearing its delicious yellow fruit. If that spin 
machine can

lie against the testimony of that poor innocent palm tree, 
then that spin

machine is capable of any fabrication.

They also 
gave us an account of what happened on that day, and how

the cowardly 
Saddam Hussein begged for his life. But they never told

us why they 
failed to capture that historic moment on video. It would

have been quite 
convincing if we could hear the man or see him with

his hands up, like we 
have seen that proud palm tree showing its yellow

dates. Instead, we 
could only hear the yelping of Jewish presenters on

CNN and Fox News 
gloating over the successful operation. We also

heard later of how Ariel 
Sharon spent the night in Baghdad celebrating

with his American 
subordinates.



If they lied about the time they captured Saddam 
Hussein, it would be

sound to assume that the story they are telling us 
about his cowardice

is sheer fabrication. The man would never surrender 
unless he was

gassed before they grabbed him. He would have been aware of 
the

level of American brutality as demonstrated in the rare photos 
slipping

off Guantanamo Bay. He must have thought over again and again 
his

reaction to that critical moment, while contemplating in his 
hideout.

His reaction would surpass that of his brave sons, who 
commanded

respect holding at bay several hundred cowardly US invaders, 
before

their bodies were riddled with bullets, beyond recognition. Such 
would

be the bravery of a man of the calibre of Saddam 
Hussein.


Only one simple detail escaped the Pentagon spin machine: 
Palm trees

never lie. 

 

---Jan    Durl Kruse

--- durljan at earthlink.net 

 
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