“We, reserve combat officers and soldiers
of the Israel Defense Forces, who were raised upon the principles of
Zionism, sacrifice and giving to the people of Israel and to the State
of Israel, who have always served in the front lines, and who 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 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 human character and the corruption of the
entire Israeli society.
We, who know that the Territories are not Israel,
and that all settlements are bound to be evacuated in the end.
We hereby declare that we shall not continue
to fight this War of the Settlements.
We shall not continue to fight beyond the 1967
borders in order to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate an entire
people.
We hereby declare that we shall continue serving
in the Israel Defense Forces in any mission that serves Israel’s
defense.
The missions of occupation and oppression do
not serve this purpose - and we shall take no part in them.”
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