A cellular antenna was placed by one of the Israeli telephone companies on the roof of a private house in the middle of a residential area. The local residents decided to act in a way that they thought would best protect their environment and health, and burned down the antenna. Nothing special about this. It has happened many times before, and for years, the telephone companies have often taken into consideration the citizens’ concerns and placed their antennas in a manner that minimized the potential for harm to public health. That is, except in Arab localities.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Is Deserting War a Way towards Peace?*
/ ////Written by Yossi Bartal for the Alternative Information Center (AIC)/
A few weeks ago, the Israeli military published figures on this year’s recruitment, regarding the number of soldiers enlisted and the units they have chosen to join. The statistics revealed that 25 percent of 18-year-old Jewish men, and 40 percent of Jewish women don’t join the military for various reasons. For the first time, the number of non-draftees has reached a quarter of the Jewish population. The proportion of soldiers who leave the military in their first few months of service is around 18 percent, a number that is also on the rise. Moreover, the demand for serving in combat units is decreasing, falling in the course of one year by 1.5 percent. The details regarding reserve soldiers were not published, but it is known that their rate of service avoidance is increasing even faster.
The publication of the numbers, together with comments from the Israeli military spokesperson, have created a significant ”debate,” or rather, a hysterical outcry in Israel over the rising share of non-draftees, and the need to expand the pool of recruits, mainly by punishing through social and economic exclusion those who don’t join the military.
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