With $8 million per day of U. S. military aid to Israel, Israelis have regularly bulldozed homes and gardens, and stolen livestock and homes of Palestinians in Gaza at gunpoint for over 50 years. The Madison/Rafah Sister City Project was founded in 2003 to increase public awareness of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to influence U.S. public policy to benefit both peoples. One of the projects has been to support planting olive trees by Palestinian settlers to support farmers. Cassandra Dixon says the celebration continues this year, despite the conflict, on Sunday, October 15, 2023, from 2-4pm in the Tenney Park Shelter.

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