Our Call:
Let Iraqis Live
Bring Our Troops Home Now
Bring Them All Home Alive!

Those who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

The following comparison of the Vietnam and Iraq wars was written by Karl Meyer of Nashville Greenlands.

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.

Donna Mulhearn has spent the last week in the Palestinian West Bank “sleepy farming town” of Saida under curfew and military occupation with its people. The following are her last three letters and photos describing the effects of this military occupation of a small village.

27 January - 1 February 2005

House arrest in Palestine

By Donna Mulhearn
27 January

Dear friends,

I am writing this by candlelight in a family living room in the Palestinian West Bank town of Saida where I am currently under military-enforced house arrest, along with 3,500 others. The living room of my adopted home is packed full of people. Grandma with the white scarf and wise face and several of her 13 children: four cheerful sisters with their various tribes of children, three younger brothers and several cousins.

They have no choice but to stay inside. If they open their front door they will be confronted by the machine gun of one of the hundreds of heavily armed Israeli soldiers who invaded and occupied this sleepy farming town three days ago.

By LILA GUTERMAN
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Thursday, January 27, 2005

When more than 200,000 people died in a tsunami caused by an Asian earthquake in December, the immediate reaction in the United States was an outpouring of grief and philanthropy, prompted by extensive coverage in the news media.

Two months earlier, the reaction in the United States to news of another large-scale human tragedy was much quieter. In late October, a study was published in The Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal, concluding that about 100,000 civilians had been killed in Iraq since it was invaded by a United States-led coalition in March 2003. On the eve of a contentious presidential election — fought in part over U.S. policy on Iraq — many American newspapers and television news programs ignored the study or buried reports about it far from the top headlines.

Ceylon Mooney with the Wheels of Justice Van just after a new message was painted on the side.

Ceylon Mooney, co-coordinator of Voices in the Wilderness and the Wheels of Justice Tour, traveled recently in the Middle East with three friends; Joel G, Jacob Flowers, and Kyle Kordsmeier.

Having recently returned to the U.S. with firsthand stories from occupied Palestine they are all eager to talk and relate what the occupation means. Compiled below are all 4 journals in one place for easier printing and reading.