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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (4129)	12/24/2003 4:07:26 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

IDFCommandos Join Refusnik Movement Cite the immorality of participating in Israeli ethnic cleansing of the Pals [In a remarkable turn of events following closely and symbolically upon the conviction last week of five young Israeli conscientious objectors -- Hagai Matar, Shimri Zameret, Adam Maor, Noam Bahat and Matan Kaminer -- today 13 members of the elite Israeli military unit Sayeret Matkal announced their refusal to serve in the Occupied Territories. The significance of the announcement by the 13 Sayeret Matkal reservists is hard to describe to a non-Israeli observer because of the special status that Sayeret Matkal commands in Israeli society. The unit has undertaken a series of high profile and extremely difficult operations over the years -- most famously, the Entebbe raid in 1976 that freed more than a 100 Jewish and Israeli hostages held by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijackers (several captives were killed in the rescue effort, as was former PM Benjamin Netanyahu's brother, Yoni, the Sayeret Matkal commander). The 13 new refusers have sent a letter to Israeli PM Ariel Sharon announcing that "we will no longer give our hands to the oppressive reign in the territories and the denial of human rights to millions of Palestinians." The Sayeret Matkal reservists maintain that the continuing occupation is unrelated to the defense of Israel but illegitimately forces Israeli soldiers to "serve as a defensive shield for the [Israeli] settlement enterprise."