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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (517971)	12/31/2003 2:46:57 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

COURAGE TO REFUSE -- COMBATANTS LETTER OPPOSING SHARON'S INSANE POLICIES OF GENOCIDE couragetorefuse.org 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. Site News The Editor's Word is Back; see below. A Word from the Editor: as if a Year has not gone by !!! (updated June 23, 2003) Testimonies from the Re-Occupation Offensive (March-August 2002) Add to Your Site an Automatically Updated Banner! courtesy of oznik.com Current signers number: 550 couragetorefuse.org See 60 Minutes Segment on the Refusniks, available at website....