Dahlia Wasfi

Overview

Dahlia Wasfi born New York, NY December 6, 1971. American physician and peace activist. As daughter of Iraqi father and American Jew, she demanded US immediate unconditional withdrawal from Iraq.

Quotations

“Since World War II 90% of the casualties of war are unarmed civilians, a third of them children. Our victims have done nothing to us, from Palestine to Afghanistan, to Iraq, to Somalia, to wherever our next target may be, their murders are not collateral damage they are the nature of modern warfare.
They don’t hate us because of our freedoms, they hate us because every day we are funding and committing crimes against humanity.
The so-called war on terror is a cover for our military aggression to gain control of the resources of Western Asia. This is sending the poor of this country to kill the poor of those Muslim countries.
This is trading blood for oil. This is genocide, and to most of the world, we are the terrorists. In these times, remaining silent on our responsibility to the world and its future is criminal, and in light of our complicity in the supreme crimes against humanity in Iraq and Afghanistan and ongoing violations of the UN Charter and international law, how dare any American criticize the actions of legitimate resistance to illegal occupation?
Our so-called enemies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, our other colonies around the world, and our inner cites here at home are struggling against the oppressive hand of empire demanding respect for their humanity.” (to Congressional Progressive Caucus, Apr. 27, 2006; photo youtube.com)