At no point yesterday did anyone mention occupation. Like sex, “occupation” had to be censored out of the historical narrative.

Watching occupation on television (photo: Donna Mulhearn)

by Robert Fisk
original at Selves and Others

So, the Palestinians will end their occupation of Israel. No more will Palestinian tanks smash their way into Haifa and Tel Aviv. No more will Palestinian F-18s bomb Israeli population centres. No more will Palestinian Apache helicopters carry out “targeted killings” - ie: murders - of Israeli military leaders.

The Palestinians have promised to end all “acts of violence” against Israelis while Israel has promised to end all “military activity” against Palestinians. So that’s it, then. Peace in our time.

By Peggy Gish
Christian Peacemaker Teams

“Our organization, the Iraqi Human Rights Watch in Kerbala (IHRW) has been documenting human rights violations of the former regime. We were the first organization to find mass graves after the war,” said Jamal,* when he introduced himself and the IHRW to a representative of the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Army director of Civil Affairs at the base. Jamal and two other human rights workers from IHRW were meeting along with four CPTers at U.S. military base outside of Kerbala, on February 1, 2005. “We also have been documenting violations caused by the U.S. during and after the war, violations to personal properties, directly to people, and to their land and farms. We have been helping Iraqis to apply for compensation for these violations, and I am sorry to say, the response has been minimal, like a drop in the bucket.”