We witness those horrors in real time as the bombs we pay for rain day and night on innocent people.
Anyone possessing a shred of humanity, especially we who have seen the terrors of war, instinctively feel Martin Luther King’s “fierce urgency of now.” Therefore, it unmistakably follows we must do all in our power to halt the ongoing nightmare in Palestine.
As military veterans who have witnessed war’s depravity and who are casualties of the lies that started those wars, we have the right and the duty to express our outrage but more importantly, to call for a new wave of resistance to compel our government to stop Israel’s genocide.
Specifically, during “September Days of Solidarity with the People of Palestine,” we call on all VFP members and chapters across the U.S. to commit to organize with our allies, the following three actions from September 1 through 7:
1. Deliver to Congressional offices, military bases or any appropriate government office, the VFP letter that lists the U.S. laws government employees and weapons makers violate with every arms shipment to Israel.
2. Do our nonviolent best to enforce those laws with simultaneous civil resistance actions stopping operations at those facilities.
3. Join local campaigns to get governments and universities to boycott Israeli goods and divest Israel government bonds.
Dr. King’s “Fierce urgency of now” demands we risk for peace at least as much as we once did for many unjust wars. We are Veterans For Peace. We are ready once again to answer that call.