To: Thomas M. who wrote (433 ) 7/2/2002 1:09:17 AM From: Raymond Duray Respond to of 3467 SHARON: WAR CRIMINAL || COURAGE TO REFUSE! A COMBATANT'S LETTER Hi Tom, Sharon is the epitome of evil. He was the Minister of Agriculture in the aftermath of the the brutal, genocidal slaughter of the Six Day War. You remember? The one that Dayan and his nazi henchmen started just like the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. These IDF guys sure do learn the lessons of history. And shockingly carry it out on weaker neighbors, in perfect imitation of the very people they hypocritically rail against in their world-wide Holocaust Museums. In the aftermath, Sharon commenced the settlements on the West Bank and the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. His plan was to emulate (these guys imitate every fascist they can find) the Bantustan segregation policies initiated by the heinous apartheid government of South Africa. The plan, as Sharon is quoted, was to divide the Palestinians in the West Bank "like a layer cake". If you can get hold of a real map of the area, you can see how he's surrounded the Palestinian towns with settlements and access roads. Creating "ghettoes", just like the disasterous situations that Jews got caught up in in dangerous pogroms in Poland and Russia. These Israelis don't miss a trick do they? Every evil the world has ever sent down on the Jews, the Jews have decided to visit upon the hapless Palestinians. This shows a remarkable and shocking inability of the human species to learn from its mistakes. Its as if we prefer it to be stuck on "Groundhog Day" until "the Rapture". We are nuts! No question about it. Anyway, I digress. So, the Sharon scheme is to steal all the water out of the West Bank aquifers, because no Western press will ever report such a heinous crime seriously. Not enough people know what this means. Then he surrounds the honest Palestinians in detention camps, squeezing, squeezing, squeezing until the frustration boils over into suicide bombers. Then Sharon has the balls to tell the world it's the mad suicide bombers who need to be stopped. This is nuts. How can the world not see through Sharon's hypocrisy, his charade and his crimes against humanity? No wonder the U.S. and Israel refuse to be part of the I.C.C. Because Sharon is fit to be hanged! And I'm certain many here feel I'm on quite the harangue. Enough. This madman makes me mad, as in angry. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""seruv.org.il • 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. Current signers list follows. 466 brave IDF soldiers, primarily officers. All gentlemen. And all more noble than the disgusting Ariel Sharon.