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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45475)	1/5/2004 10:31:05 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Dissent is allowed in civilized societies whereas in uncivilized societies the people who disagree are lynched and hanged with wires, leftists may look at how dissenters are treated by Arafat and Co.. A retired Israeli army colonel sent his officer's insignia back to chief of staff Moshe Yaalon on Sunday in protest at the behavior of troops in the occupied territories, a news agency reported. Lieutenant Colonel Eitan Ronel said he had sent the leaf emblems to Yaalon "and explained to him in a letter that the army no longer respects the brave ethics as they had in the past". "Children regularly fall victim to our bullets in the occupied Palestinian territories: this is both illegal and immoral," the former reservist officer told public radio. "The blunders and the humiliations are becoming more and more serious and numerous as neither the orders nor the punishments are clearly formulated." Ronel is the latest in a line of military refuseniks who have protested over Israeli tactics in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Thirteen soldiers from Israel's top commando unit wrote to Yaalon and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon late last month saying that they would no longer participate in a "rule of oppression" and the defence of Jewish settlements.