-Caveat Lector- granted that there are plenty of problems with Israel and the treatment of Palestinians but that does not make the Palestinians good guys in any way either ---------------------- ------- ----------------------------- "Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it" Elwood P Dowd NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew > From: Yardbird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 16:47:07 -0300 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [CTRL] An Israeli refusenik writing from jail > > -Caveat Lector- > >> >> Dozens of Yesh Gvul activists turned up at the August 2 vigil outside >> Military Prison 4 (Tzrifin), held in solidarity with jailed refuseniks >> David Haham- Herson, Alex Lyakas and Ishai Shgi. Sympathisers >> included family members, one of Israel?s leading poets, Dalia >> Rabikovitch and recently released refusenik Idan Landau. The >> protestors stood at the camp gates to hand out hundreds of leaflets to >> soldiers. This activity evidently irritated the military authorities, >> and a posse of security guards tried ? without success ? to shove the >> protestors away. >> >> The parents of David Haham showed us a letter their son had written >> from jail, and we quote extracts: ?I am imprisoned over my refusal to >> take part in repression of the Palestinian people, because I feel it >> is out of the question to be a Jew, son of a people of refugees, and >> yet repress a people of refugees. I am a God-fearing Jew, and as such >> am forbidden to take part in denying the freedom of others. Despite >> being jailed, I feel freer than most of the Israelis I?ve met because >> I don?t bear the burden of vindictiveness and the perverse >> gratification attending that feeling, of denial and callousness.? >> >> ?I am filled with concern because I know that the howls of jubilation >> over the killings drown out the sobs of the numerous victims, Jews and >> Arabs, of the widows and orphans, of the cripples who will suffer for >> the rest of their lives for that conceit and callousness.? >> >> ?I don?t think that my imprisonment releases me from responsibility. >> Even without serving in the army, I?d share responsibility for these >> actions. Precisely because I regard myself as sharing responsibility, >> I refuse to take part in the repression.? >> >> Finally, a word of thanks to our friends who have sent contributions >> to help finance the Yesh Gvul campaign: your assistance is most >> necessary and timely, and we are grateful. Ahead of the Prison 4 >> vigil we re-issued our call to Israeli soldiers warning them AGAINST >> TAKING PART IN WAR CRIMES, specifying as such a list of actions the >> IDF routinely mounts against the Palestinian population. As the >> commercial press declines to publish such an appeal, we were obliged >> to put it in a paid advertisement - at a cost of $1,500. That?s where >> your money went, and we hope you agree that it was to a worthy end. >> >> >> Peretz Kidron >> Ram Rahat >> >> YESH GVUL >> www.yesh-gvul.org > > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> > DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER > ========== > CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic > screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! 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