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In 1990, four brothers in the Palestinian village of Budrus put together their collective life savings and bought about 15 acres of land, planted 400 olive trees, and worked the land for 13 years. In 2004, bulldozers arrived in Budrus and began their rapid destruction of everything in the path of the Wall, including the four brothers’ land. Although Budrus is miles from the Green Line, Israel has used American tax-dollars to build the Wall through the village’s fields, annexing some 300 acres from a community that lives primarily off its agricultural work. Budrus' Story continued...