Israel jails 600 reservists

[Michael Pollak]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Hakki Alacakaptan wrote:

> The part about a large number of desertions was reported by Le Monde on
> Jan 25:

Yes, that's been reported several places for some time (although it is
more a refusal to show up for duty than desertion, which is a bit
different), as well as the published letter of the reserve officers
calling on soldiers to refuse occupation duty.  It's the headline news of
the mass arrests that I can't find anywhere else -- and you'd think that
would be difficult to keep secret.  After all, these are mainstream
Israeli citizens they would have arrested.  But if my skeptical friend
Nusi (even more skeptical than me, Hakki :o) says it could be true than I
believe him.

Michael
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