Op-Ed piece in the NY Times with an interesting perspective on serving in the Israeli military and being against occupation. (requires free registration)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/09/opinion/09MENU.html Excerpt: JERUSALEM -- In this past week of madness and carnage, hope for peace between Israel and the Palestinians appears impossible. After 35 years of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the two sides seem only to have grown accustomed to assassinations, bombings, terrorist attacks and house demolitions. Each side characterizes its own soldiers as either "defense forces" or "freedom fighters" when in truth these soldiers take part in war crimes on a daily basis. Daily funerals and thoughts of revenge among Israelis tend to blur the fact that we, the Israelis, are the occupiers. And as much as we live in fear of terrorism and war, it is the Palestinians who suffer more deaths hourly and live with greater fear because they are the occupied. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/
