Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza StripOther Press, LLC, 2003 M12 17 - 176 páginas In a series of moving and provocative conversations, nine members of the Israeli Defense Force tell why they refused to serve in the West Bank and Gaza. The "Refuseniks" describe their risky moral decision against the background of what is perhaps the most volatile conflict in the world today: the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. Their individual choices and their collective activism have generated intense debate in Israel and the international community, from the leading Israeli newspaper Ha'Aretz to a segment on 60 Minutes. In a sociocultural mosaic of the Refusenik movement and the political context in which it arose, these men describe their individual family backgrounds and beliefs. Dedicated to the welfare of their country and its cultural heritage, they outline their concerns for the future of Israel. As they tell their stories of personal struggle, they also raise the disturbing and highly controversial issue of human rights abuses in the occupied territories. These personal accounts offer new perspectives on some entrenched ideas about the situation in the Middle East. The testimony in Breaking Ranks is essential background for a full understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this time of grave crisis in the Middle East, with no solution in sight to repair the utter collapse of the peace process, these voices offer a message of hope in their commitment to their society and nation. |
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Sergeant First Class Res Assaf Oron | 15 |
Major Res Rami Kaplan | 35 |
Lieutenant Res Yaniv Iczkovitz | 51 |
Staff Sergeant Res Tal Belo | 63 |
Lieutenant Res Guy Grossman | 77 |
Staff Sergeant Res Shamai Leibowitz | 87 |
Lieutenant Res Yuval Lotem | 105 |
Staff Sergeant Res Ishay RosenZvi | 121 |
Private David ChachamHerson | 137 |
MAPS | 153 |
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Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Ronit Chacham-Herson Vista de fragmentos - 2003 |
Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Ronit Chacham Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Ronit Chacham Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
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Página 2 - ... were the first to carry out any mission, light or heavy, in order to protect the State of Israel and strengthen it. We, combat officers and soldiers who have served the State of Israel for long weeks every year, in spite of the dear cost to our personal lives, have been on reserve duty all over the Occupied Territories, and were issued commands and directives that had nothing to do with the security of our country, and that had the sole purpose of perpetuating our control over the Palestinian...
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Página 2 - ... Occupied Territories, and were issued commands and directives that had nothing to do with the security of our country, and that had the sole purpose of perpetuating our control over the Palestinian people. We, whose eyes have seen the bloody toll this Occupation exacts from both sides. We, who sensed how the commands issued to us in the Territories, destroy all the values we had absorbed while growing up in this country. "We, who understand now that the price of Occupation is the loss of IDF's...