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	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Refusal to serve in the Israeli military includes both refusal to obey specific orders and refusal to serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in any capacity due to pacifistic or antimilitaristic views or disagreement with the policies of the Israeli government as implemented by the army.
		While most instances of refusal to serve have historically been found among left-leaning Israelis, there is a rapidly expanding awareness among right-wing soldiers to refuse orders to evict Jews from settlements in the West Bank (and formerly in the Gaza Strip).
		In February 2004, Israeli Chief of Personnel Major-General Gil Regev told a Knesset committee that the number of soldiers refusing to serve in the territories had dramatically decreased in 2003 despite the increase in the number of high-profile refusals.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Refusal_to_serve_in_the_Israeli_military (1986 words)

	Refusal to serve in the Israeli military - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Refusal to serve in the Israeli military includes both refusal to obey specific orders and refusal to serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in any capacity due to pacifistic or antimilitaristic views or disagreement with the policies of the Israeli government as implemented by the army.
		While most instances of refusal to serve have historically been found among left-leaning Israelis, there is a rapidly expanding movement among right-wing soldiers to refuse orders to remove Israeli civilians from settlements in the West Bank (and formerly in the Gaza Strip).
		Later, in an interview given to Israeli journalist Dan Margalit, Yiftah Spector stated that the letter was misunderstood and that pilots should not refuse to perform "targeted killing" of "terrorist leaders".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yesh_Gvul (1976 words)

	Refusal to serve in the Israeli military - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		People who refuse to serve in either capacity are sometimes called refuseniks (Hebrew: סרבנים;, pronounced sarvanim).
		Yesh Gvul (Hebrew: יש גבול;, literally "there is a limit") is a movement founded in 1982 at the outbreak of the Lebanon War by reservists who refused to serve in Lebanon.
		Refusal to serve in the Israeli military, Overview, Refusals actions and movements, The high school seniors' letter, Yesh Gvul, Courage to Refuse, New Profile, The pilots' letter, The commandos' letter, Refusal to remove settlements, Reaction to the refuseniks, See also, External links, Conscription, Israel Defense Forces, Pacifism, Activism, Middle East peace efforts and Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Yesh_Gvul (1997 words)

	Encyclopedia: Druze
		Their privileges and responsibilites are the same as Israeli Jews; thus, all Druze are drafted, but exemptions are given for religious students and for various other reasons; however, conscientious objectors typically face jail time [3] (see also Refusal to serve in the Israeli military).
		He has served as the Deputy Speaker and the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, and was appointed Minister Without Portfolio in the Sharon government of 2001.
		Colonel is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with the corresponding ranks existing in nearly every country in the world.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Druze (4812 words)

	Israeli Activists Call Enlistment a Woman's Choice
		The 19-year-old pacifist and conscientious objector was sentenced Dec. 18 to 14 days in prison for refusing to serve in the Israeli military as required of eligible men and women.
		In her statement of refusal, Halili, then 19, cited women's exclusion from influential positions in the military, the entrenchment of "patriarchal values and gender stereotypes" such as aggressiveness and control, and a hierarchical and male-dominated army culture that encourages sexual harassment.
		Those who serve in military intelligence, for instance, use their minds and have significant authority while those working as secretaries often have a "depressing" experience and can suffer a loss of self-esteem since such a position offers little chance to develop as a person.
	www.womensenews.org /article.cfm/dyn/aid/3009 (1275 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Israel's firepower challenged
		In 1997, a senior Israeli military officer was denounced by government ministers when he announced that the army was preparing to wage guerrilla war in the occupied territories.
		Five years on, the Israeli army is not quite engaged in guerrilla war in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but events sometimes seem to be moving in that direction.
		While Israelis as a whole reel from the mounting toll inflicted by suicide bombers, the army is perhaps more concerned that recent weeks have seen a devastating sniper attack on an Israeli checkpoint and the disabling of two Merkava battle tanks.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/1913874.stm (681 words)

	Elite reservists join refusal to serve in territories
		The knowledge that Palestinian civilian deaths and daily degradation continue to mount with each successive Israeli military operation in the Territories is relegated, in turn, to the void of appalling disavowal among much of the Israeli and international media and public.
		Meretz MK Yossi Sarid said that while he opposes refusal to serve in the territories, this latest letter was another example of the failure of the occupation.
		The Sayeret letter is the third such public declaration of reservists refusing to serve in the territories since the outset of the current intifada.
	www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org /publish/article_442.shtml (1948 words)

	"I Won't Serve in Your Army"
		At his trial, he stressed that he won't serve with the IDF in any capacity as long as the occupation is in force.
		This is a step beyond the usual principle of "selective refusal," whereby refuseniks agree to be delegated to other noncombatant duties unconnected with the occupation.
		This dirty war includes extra-judicial killings, the murder of women and children, the destruction of the economic and social infrastructure of the Palestinian population, the burning of agricultural fields, and the uprooting of trees.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Israel/I_Wont_Serve_In_Army.html (1030 words)

	Refusers Conference : News from the Region : Palestinian Israeli Conflict : AFSC
		On Saturday, May 7th, there was a conference among the four major groups dealing with refusal to serve in the Israeli military because of their objection to the occupation, pacifism, and other human rights issues.
		This was the first such gathering of the different refusal groups and it was aimed at furthering the cooperation between the different groups and building a joint strategy.
		The participants of the conference were divided into four different working groups divided by topics; The difference between right wing and left wing refusal, refusal in light of the disengagement program, education and militarism, and immediate cooperation between the participating organizations.
	www.afsc.org /israel-palestine/news/Refusers-Conference.htm (735 words)

	World War 1 and 2 - New Profile
		New Profile is a movement for transforming the Israeli society into a "civilian" one ("חברה אזרחית" – a term recently coined by parts of the Israeli left wing to highlight their view of the present society as "recruited" or "militarized").
		Cancelling the law of compulsory enlistment to the Israeli military.
		Supporting refusers who are in army prison because of their refuse to enlist to the army or serve in the Occupied Territories.
	www.worldwardiary.com /history/New_Profile (151 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - History & Community: Refusal to Serve
		In fact, since lives are considered to be in danger, the refusal to participate in the evacuation of settlements falls into the category of pikuach nefesh (the saving of life)--one of the supreme duties for any religious Jew.
		Moshe Ingel, a signatory to the Combatants’ letter, explains that he refuses to serve in the territories "because the activities we are told to carry out are immoral and have nothing to do with Israel’s security." Youval Andorn, another refusenik, adds that "illegality is built into the situation [of serving in the territories].
		Refusal to evacuate settlements in an effort to prolong Israeli control of Judea, Samaria and Gaza is analogous to the refusal to serve in the territories in order to bring about the end of the occupation.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /history_community/Israel/Israeli_Society/Sarbanut.htm (1669 words)

	Refusenik (Israel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Refusenik: The name (in Hebrew: סרבן read sar-van) is used by Israeli soldiers and reservists who refuse to serve in the occupied territories, in protest against Israel's actions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
		They may be pacifists or antimilitarists, although many of them are also patriotic supporters of Tsahal, but do not accept the daily human rights abuses committed during the occupation.
		Recently, the term was also used in the opposite political sense to describe soldiers who refused prime minister Ariel Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan to remove Israeli settlements from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Refusenik_%28Israel%29 (154 words)

	ScienceDaily: Meretz-Yachad
		It was established in order to unite and resucitate the Israeli Zionist peace camp, which was defeated in the 2003 elections (dropping from 54 Knesset members in 1992 to 24 in 2003) following the al-Aqsa Intifada.
		It abandoned the "securitist" approach of its predeccessor Meretz and focused its criticism at the conduct of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Defence Forces and the government of Israel.
		This criticism has failed to find much support in Israeli public opinion, which continues to be dominated by the desire for security and haunted by Palestinian terror attacks.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/yachad (1746 words)

	New Profile
		New Profile (×¤×¨×•×¤×× ×—×“×©) is a movement for transforming Israeli society into a "civilian" one ("×—×‘×¨×” ××—×¨×—××ª" â“ a term recently coined by parts of the Israeli left wing to highlight their view of the present society as "recruited" or "militarized").
		It is a voluntary organization that acts against the compulsory law of military enlistment and supports people who refuse to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces.
		Supporting refusniks who are in army prison because of their refusal to enlist in the army or serve in the Occupied Territories.
	www.cooldictionary.com /words/New-Profile.wikipedia (205 words)

	Netanyahu's nephew refuses to join army - smh.com.au
		He had asked to be judged in a civil rather than military court for refusing to serve in the army.
		In a letter to the Israeli Defence Ministry, Hagai Matar, one of the five wrote that the army was "an instrument of violence that contravenes human rights and international conventions".
		Eighteen Israelis are serving month-long sentences in jail for refusing to serve in the army or in the Palestinian territories.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/04/15/1050172601030.html (328 words)

	EAPPI Report: Can Refusal stop the Occupation?
		“Now it is even considered noble not to serve in the Occupied Territories.”; Recent polls reveal that 25 percent of the adult Jewish population in Israel thinks that it is a soldier’s right to refuse to serve in the Occupied Territories.
		The death toll for Israeli soldiers was high, leading to a fierce debate in the media and among Israeli citizens.
		Five were recently sentenced to serve one year in prison, the longest term in Israeli history for such an action.
	www.eappi.org /eappi.nsf/index/rep-ms-05032206.html (1095 words)

	Read about Yachad (party) at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Yachad (party) and learn about Yachad (party) here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The party's purpose was to unite a variety of dovish Zionist movements with the dovish wing of the Israeli Labor Party.
		Dismantling most of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
		Israeli Defence Forces and the government of Israel.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Yachad (827 words)

	Israeli students refuse military service
		Both are among the signatories of a letter signed last year by over 300 high school students, declaring their refusal to serve in the Israeli army (see their website at www.shministim.org.
		Both objectors are serving a second consecutive prison term in defense of their convictions and are held in the isolation ward of Military Prison No. 4, south of Tel Aviv.
		I refuse to take part in an occupation marked by crimes and immoral deeds, an occupation that kills civilians and steals their land, an occupation that employs detention, closures, starvation, torture, theft and killing.
	www.newsandletters.org /Issues/2003/Jan-Feb/Israel_Jan03.htm (482 words)

	Pride and Dissent in the Israeli Military - Brig.-Gen. Gershon HaCohen
		While only one in ten serves as a reservist combat soldier, these ten percent are carefully selected, which creates a sense of being in the elite of society.
		The percentage of those who ideologically refuse to obey orders is so low that many commanders have no such soldiers in their units.
		While Israeli society consists of many different voices, as is appropriate in a genuine, open society, the free discussions about everything have not damaged the willingness of the soldiers that I meet every day.
	www.jcpa.org /brief/brief3-28.htm (1347 words)

	israelinsider: politics: Growing criticism of reserve officers' refusal to serve in territories
		The signatories of the letter were all reservists who stated that they "serve the state of Israel for many weeks each year, regardless of the heavy personal cost," and who had never before shirked their duties defending the State of Israel.
		The events that led to the officers' decision to refuse service in the territories and publish their letter were covered at length in the weekend edition of Yediot Aharonot.
		Yesh Gvul was founded in response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, when 168 servicemen were jailed, some repeatedly, for refusing to serve in the campaign.
	www.israelinsider.com /channels/politics/articles/pol_0104.htm (1177 words)

	Refuser Solidarity Network
		Yesh Gvul, a major Israeli refuser group supported by RSN, launches campaign calling for a full investigation of the 2002 assassination of Hamas leader Saleh Shehadeh which also killed 14 civilians when Israel dropped a one-ton bomb on their Gaza apartment building.
		After the attorney general refused to order a criminal investigation into the incident, the High Court was petitioned by Yesh Gvul, a group formed by reserve soldiers who opposed the first Lebanon war.
		Refusers Parents' Forum—Network of parents and family members supporting working together to support current and future high school senior conscientious objectors (Shministim)—including those in, or released, from prison.
	www.refusersolidarity.net (934 words)

	Israeli Military Resister's Statement to Minister of Defence Ben Eliezer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		An officer for whom you are responsible has sentenced me today to 28 days in military prison for my refusal to serve in reserve duty.
		I did not refuse only to serve in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, as I have for the past 15 years, I refused to serve in the Israeli army in any capacity.
		Israelis are also the victims of this war.
	www.ccmep.org /hotnews2/sergio032002.html (777 words)

	Message from the Israeli Military
		The third was a "Letter of Refusal" whereby several hundred reserve soldiers declared their unwillingness to serve in the West Bank or Gaza strip.
		The "selective refusal" movement is not new: already an estimated 400 reservists have refused to take part in the current campaign of repression, 50 being jailed for their "insubordination".
		Though certainly not a comprehensive final solution, an immediate Israeli declaration of a cease-fire and willingness to return to face-to-face talks, with the aim of terminating the occupation on agreed terms before the end of 2002 would quell the bloodshed.
	www.rtis.com /touchstone/apr02/20.HTM (607 words)

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