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<div>From: "Sam Bahour" <sbahour@palnet.com></div>
<div>Subject: [Al-Awda-Oh] Send your support to Israeli Conscientious
Objectors</div>
<div>Reply-To: Al-Awda-Oh@yahoogroups.com</div>
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<div>Please visit: <a
href="http://www.seruv.org/">http://www.seruv.org/</a> and register
your support to these Israeli combat officers and soldiers who are
refusing to serve to maintain the occupation. </div>
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<div>To leave a msg of support on the site in English visit: </div>
<div><a
href="http://www.seruv.org/contactuseng.asp"
>http://www.seruv.org/contactuseng.asp</a> </div>
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<div>The following is there statement: </div>
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<div>* 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. </div>
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<div>* 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. </div>
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<div>* 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. </div>
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<div>* 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. </div>
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<div>* We, who know that the Territories are not Israel, and that all
settlements are bound to be evacuated in the end.
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<div>* 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. </div>
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<div>* 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. </div>
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Yoshie<br>
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