The Horrors of War, 2

Via Dolorosa, The Way of Sorrows: Military Occupation

This I drew to depict the events of al-Nakba, the Catastrophe of the Palestinians in 1948, a process that continues in shades through the present. The destruction of the villages, the rounding up and deportation of the men in large trucks, the concentration camps that have now become permanent 'refugee' camps throughout the middle east, as well as the prisons and dungeouns decried by Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups alike.



And still, this bears striking familiarity to our treatment of the Iraqis; there is nothing on this scrap of paper that we ourselves have not done. Three years after drawing this picture, I was taking photographs of the same images live.