forced to fleece herself of her own wool and
sell it. For someone who treacherously persecutes and destroys innocent people.

Note: Walter of England (twelfth-century
author of an extremely popular collection of fables in verse) is even
more specific about the sheep's grim fate: 'even though winter was coming
on, the sheep had to sell her own wool and suffer the north wind's blast
while she was stripped bare of her own fleece.'

Source:
Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura
Gibbs.
Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New
cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.Peninsula, it also invaded Syria’s Golan Heights. More than 130,000 native Syrians living in the area were either transferred forcibly from their homes, or compelled to flee by the threat of the war. This represented most of the population of the territory.

Israel then set about destroying villages in the Golan. Within a month of the occupation, Israel began building settlements on the rubble; these were and are all illegal under international law. The Syrian inhabitants of those villages were forbidden by Israel from returning to their land. The situation in many respects is very much like Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, albeit on a smaller scale.

In 1981 – in defiance of international law and the UN – Israel annexed the Golan, designating it to be part