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WCDS,
masih ingat film "Raid on Entebbe"nya mendiang Charles
Bronson ? Operation Thunderbolt (a.k.a Operation
Jonathan) di awal Juli 1976 yg legendaris tsb
dilakukan oleh unit komando Israel bernama Sayeret
Matkal.
Berita terbaru dari internet ttg penolakan beberapa
personel Sayeret Matkal utk ikut beroperasi di daerah
pendudukan Israel cukup mengejutkan. Alasannya sangat
menarik: operasi militer di daerah tsb imoral.
Berikut berita selengkapnya dari Reuters:
Israeli Commandos Refuse to Serve in W.Bank, Gaza
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Thirteen fighters in Israel's
most celebrated commando unit have publicly refused to
serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip because they
believe the army's operations there are immoral,
Israeli media reported.
The commandos announced their refusal to serve in a
letter sent to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has
come under increased pressure to halt efforts to quash
a three-year-old Palestinian uprising and instead
engage in peace treaty talks.
"We will no longer be party to an oppressive rule in
the territories and the disregard for the human rights
of millions of Palestinians," the 13 Sayeret Matkal
reservist commandos wrote in their letter, according
to local television stations.
"We will no longer be a defensive wall against
settlements," added the letter, in a reference to
Jewish settlements in lands Israel occupied in the
1967 Middle East war.
The Sayeret Matkal, or General Staff Reconnaissance
Unit, is Israel's most elite commando unit and has
often been compared to the U.S. military's Delta Force
or the British army's SAS.
It has carried out some of the Israeli army's most
daring missions including the rescuing of 106
passengers taken hostage by Palestinian guerrillas at
Entebbe Airport in Uganda in 1976.
During the uprising, the Sayeret Matkal has been
involved in raids to arrest senior Palestinian
militant commanders behind a suicide bombing campaign
against Israel.
The commandos' letter followed a petition earlier in
the year from 27 air force pilots -- all but nine of
whom had retired -- as refusing to carry out missions
against Palestinian militants in which civilians could
be killed.
The 13 signatories to the commando letter were all
identified as being reservists, but it was not clear
how many were still involved in active military duty.
Sharon's office declined to comment, but military
officials described the letter as political, noting
that it was sent to Sharon and not military
commanders.
"It is very serious that reserve soldiers are using
their military past and the name of the unit in which
they served as a vehicle to publish their political
views," an army spokesman said about the letter.
One of the signatories, identified as Zohar, told
Channel One Television: "This is not a political
letter...we spoke of the phenomena of occupation which
corrupts."
The commandos' letter joined the pilots' letter as the
most high-profile acts of defiance by members of the
armed forces since the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, when
a tank brigade commander resigned rather than invade
Beirut, after saying he saw children through his field
glasses.
Some of Israel's top military and political figures
served in the Sayeret Matkal, including former prime
ministers Ehud Barak (news - web sites) and Benjamin
Netanyahu (news - web sites), whose elder brother was
killed in the Entebbe rescue operation.
Israeli television stations said it was likely that
those signatories still in active service would be
dismissed from the unit. The air force removed the
nine combat pilots still in active duty after they
signed their protest letter in September.
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Salam,
Doddy - Ekek 25
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