Proclamation by Isaeli Soldiers
January 28, 2002
• 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. |