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The sixth commandment
[By:
Joseph Algazy, 25/05/2006]
A number of personal experiences from the war of June 1967 remain etched
in my memory. For reasons that will become clear, I have never before
made them public. Now, almost 40 years later, I felt it was time to
commit them to writing and publish them. This is my war story. Because
it is the personal story of a political individual, it is also a
political story. Owing to space considerations, only fragments of it are
set down here.
Iraq, Palestine and
Resisting Erasure [By: Rela
Mazali, 14/08/2005]
Presented at the International Women in Black Conference, East
Jerusalem, 11-16 August 2005.
Gandhi Redux [By:
Meron Rapaport, 09/06/2005]
"I am happy that you are here, the Israelis," the ultra-Orthodox
believer from Ramallah said to the former Haredi (Jewish ultra-Orthodox
believer) from Kfar Chabad, and the two, joined by another 500 or so
Palestinians and about 100 Israelis, continued on their way to the
weekly demonstration against the separation fence at Bilin.
The Duty to Volunteer
[By: Yael
Shiloh, 18/05/2005]
In the State of Israel there is a duty to volunteer. It's true
that there are other countries with compulsory enlistment, but I don't
know if there are any other countries where there is a duty to volunteer,
entrenched so deeply in law, in the culture, and most important - in the
minds of the citizens.
Students resist military
service [By: Kim
Bullimore, 27/04/2005]
Article on draft resistance in Israel. An edited version of this article
appeared in Australia's Green Left Weekly.
IRAQ: Doctors warn of
increasing deformities in newborn babies [By:
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs -
Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), 27/04/2005]
BAGHDAD, 27 April (IRIN) - Doctors in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, have
reported a significant increase in deformities among newborn babies
"No Woman's Law Will Rot
This State": the Israeli Racial State and Feminist Resistance [By:
Ronit Lentin, Trinity College Dublin, 31/08/2004]
This paper employs social theory and empirical observation, juxtaposing
Israel as a 'racial state' (Goldberg, 2002) and the concept of femina
sacra, a female version of Agamben's homo sacer or 'bare life' (Agamben,
1998), to think about some aspects of Israeli feminist peace activism
since the onset of the second Intifada. Although Israeli feminist peace
activism seems to discursively vacillate between essentialist motherhood
narratives and subversive draft resistance practices, reading draft
resistance narratives of young Israeli women conscripts, the paper
tentatively suggests that where the state positions itself above
morality, while evoking morality in its defence, feminist 'peace
activism' in Israel/Palestine, though providing a potent
counter-narrative to the Zionist narration of nation, does not
destabilise the racial state, which is apparently gradually destroying
itself while wilfully destroying its Others. I conclude by asking
whether morally positioning itself in contrast to the racial state, such
resistance can be theorised as gendered.
To The 'Conscience
Committee' [By: Alex
Kohn, 19/03/2005]
Declaration of refusal signed by Alex Kohn, of the 2005 Seniors' Letter.
Recruiter-turned-peacenik hits nerve in N.C. [By: Rick
Hampson, 20/03/2005]
This is the story of a veteran and the town to which he returned — a
town that no longer recognizes the man who once preached the leatherneck
gospel and now has a whole different sermon.
Israel: The Peaceful
Alternative [By:
Jonathan Ben-Artzi]
I believe that this is possible. We can live side by side, as neighbors,
today. I cannot accept that we are destined to war, and that coexistence
can come only after bloodshed and grief. Verdun is not a necessary stop
on the way to peace. For this reason I have refused to join the Israeli
army, and have spent 18 months in military prison and detention.
The White Rose - Its
Legacy and Challenge [By:
Chris Zimmerman, 18/02/2005]
Six decades ago, at the end of February 1943, three students from the
White Rose, a resistance group in Munich, were arrested, sentenced to
death and summarily beheaded. Their names were Hans Scholl, 24; his
sister Sophie, 21; and Christoph Probst, 23.
Israeli report damns
demolitions [By: BBC
News, 17/02/2005]
An Israeli army committee has recommended stopping the practice of
demolishing the houses of Palestinian suicide bombers and their families
Israelis challenging
Israel's Militarization [By:
Martin Smedjeback, 17/01/2005]
In a deeply militarized society it is not easy to question what is seen
as the lifeline for the Israeli State -- the military itself. Still
there are an increasing number of Israelis who want another kind of
society, a society which is not permeated by the military. "We are like
mosquitoes that keep buzzing this message, because I know that there are
a lot of people who think this way too," says Tal Haran, one of the
members in New Profile
Rebuilding a House and
Building a Common Future [By:
Martin Smedjeback, 17/01/2005]
Young and old came from different parts of the world to the small
village of Anata to rebuild a demolished Palestinian house together with
Israelis and Palestinians. They wanted to provide a home for 23 people,
but there was also a larger motivating factor. Building the house was
also an act of resistance to the Occupation
No Entry for Officers in
Uniform [By: Saul
Mughrabi-Berger, 06/01/2005]
Saul Mughrabi-Berger, one of the leaders of the pupils' protest against
military presence in Municipal High School A in Tel-Aviv, explains to
the principal what is the difference between a school and a military
training base.
Military school [By:
Gideon Levy, 19/12/2004]
In an educational system that considers preparation for military service
to be an educational goal, the insertion of miltiary officers into the
school staff is but a continuation of the existing policy - says Haaretz
correspondent and columnist Gideon Levy.
Palestinian textbooks:
Where is all that 'incitement'? [By:
Roger Avenstrup International Herald Tribune, 18/12/2004]
This report reaffirms what others have affirmed: Palestinian textbooks
do not contain incitement against Israel. Roger Avenstrup additionally
turns attention to the militaristic tendencies in Israeli education, and
mentions New Profile's Report on Child Recruitment in Israel.
The Panic [By: Liat
Weingart, Co-Director Jewish Voice for Peace]
We're in a time of transition. Yasser Arafat died right after Kerry lost
the US presidential election. The opposition to the Presbyterian
Church's decision to investigate selective divestment from companies
doing business with Israel's occupation is growing. And support of them
is growing. Meanwhile, Mustafa Barghouti has called for sanctions
against Israel, and the Somerville, Mass. Board of Aldermen is debating
divestment. It's a time that calls for clearheadedness. New things are
happening, and we need to be prepared to create new strategies.
Playing With Fire [By:
Merav Datan, 11/08/2004]
The following is a very intersting article which pictures the conflict,
and its connection to militarism from a special point of view. The
author is a specialist on international law, women & security and
disarmament (lectures and researches in the US).
A suitable case for
treatment [By:
Doron Rosenblum, 11/12/2004]
It's true that Arafat and his flock must take credit for the surge in
Israel's militarization in the past few years, and it's also true that
this is a natural reaction, akin to immunization, to the collapse of the
peace process and the assaults on our lives.
The Precarious Position
of Women Objectors in Israel [By:
Sergeiy Sandler, 20/10/2004]
The status of women under the Israeli conscription law, and practice,
has always been exceptional. Now, legal developments threaten to deprive
women conscientious objectors in Israel of the little recognition of
their right to CO that they enjoyed so far.
Between violence and
non-violence [By:
Amira Hass, 25/08/2004]
The Mahatma Gandhi's grandson is visiting the country this week at the
invitation of Palestinians who want to advance the idea of a popular
struggle against the Israeli occupation. Gandhi is slated to speak to
Palestinians about non-violent struggle, but it is a discussion that we
Israelis should also conduct. As occupiers.
Genocide [By: Joe
Eskenazi, Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, 29/07/2004]
Jewish voices join chorus calling for halt of ethnic slaughter in Sudan
Israeli and Jordanian
activists plead for the environment [By:
Alexandra J. Wall, Jewish News Weekly of Northern California,
16/07/2004]
“Water could be what the next war is based on,” Dana Rassas, a Jordanian
citizen who is interning with several Bay Area coastal organizations,
warned recently.
But, she added, “if the countries work together, it could bring peace,
too.”
Obituary for Toma Ŝik
(1939-2004) [By: Uri
Davis, 26/07/2004]
Jesha'ayahu Toma Ŝik - one of the most important figures in the history
of the conscientious objection movement in Israel - died on 13 July
2004. This obituary, also relating some of that history, was written by
his long-time friend and fellow activist Uri Davis.
Why I Burned My Israeli
Military Papers [By: Josh
Ruebner]
On Thursday I set fire to my Israeli military deferral papers across the
street from the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. This act of civil
disobedience took place during a protest organized by a Jewish American
peace organization against the atrocities that Israel is committing in
the occupied Gaza Strip
Two Magic Phrases [By:
Amira Hass, 19/05/2004]
There are two magic phrases that the government uses to enlist soldiers,
pilots and their families for the assault on Rafah: "armed men" and "smuggling
tunnels." The sound of those two threatening phrases overcomes the
sounds of gunfire by the air force and armored corps, the humming of the
unmanned aircraft overhead, the whistle of the missiles, the long bursts
of machine gun fire, the bombs and the shelling. And then the sirens of
the ambulances.
Amnesty International -
ISRAEL/OCCUPIED TERRITORIES Palestinian civilians in Rafah refugee camp
[By:
Amnesty International, 18/05/2004]
The Israeli army has accelerated its demolition of houses in the Rafah
refugee camp in the past few days, making over 1,000 people homeless.
The army intends to demolish more houses in the camp.
Amnesty International delegates went to the areas where homes have been
destroyed, and saw dozens of families fleeing with their possessions in
anticipation of further destruction.
As long as the plan
contains the magic term 'withdrawal', it is seen as a good thing [By: Ilan
Pappe, 19/04/2004]
Ilan Pappe warns that Israel is heading for disaster
Remember Falluja [By: Orit
Shohat, 28/04/2004]
During the first two weeks of this month, the American army committed
war crimes in Falluja on a scale unprecedented for this war. According
to the relatively few media reports of what took place there, some 600
Iraqis were killed during these two weeks, among them some 450 elderly
people, women and children.
UN nuclear watchdog
chief ElBaradei due in Israel in July [By:
Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent and News Agencies, 28/04/2004]
UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who has called for Israel
to dismantle its nuclear arsenal, is expected to visit the country in
July, officials said on Wednesday.
IAEA chief ElBaradei
calls on Israel to give up nuclear weapons [By:
Yossi Melman, 28/04/2004]
The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),
Mohamed ElBaradei, has called on Israel to relinquish its nuclear
weapons as part of a general peace agreement in the Middle East.
I Am Your Spy [By:
Mordechai Vanunu]
"I am the clerk, the technician, the mechanic, the driver, whom they
told, do this or do that."
A Poem by Mordechai Vanunu - the nuclear whistleblower.
Israel's Conscientious
Objectors - The Categorical Imperative [By: Uri
Avnery, 29/12/2003]
Some years ago, when the jury for the annual Israel Prize announced its
award to Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz, I decided to invite him to give
a lecture to the Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, the
group that established the first contacts with the PLO.
"I am ready to come," he said, "on one condition: I shall speak only
about the duty to refuse to serve in the occupied territories." For him,
that was the alpha and omega of the fight against the occupation.
The Courage of
Conscience Award - Introductory Speech [By: New
Profile, 10/03/2004]
This speech was given by Marina Pevzner at the Courage of Conscience
Award ceremony by Piece Abbey.
Words Have Failed Us
[By:
Amira Hass, 03/03/2004]
Published in Haaretz, 3 March 2004.
To our dear friends,the
Israeli female and male conscientious objectors! [By:
Women in Black, Belgrade, 14/02/2004]
A message of support and encouragement from Women in Black Belgrade.
Know When To Say No:
Refusal in Jewish Heritage [By:
Shamai Leibowitz, Attorney-At-Law, 24/02/2004]
An article by Shamai Leibowitz regarding the Jewish perspective of
refusal and conscientious objection.
A Personal Perspective
on Consicientious objection in Israel [By: Ruth
Hiller, 12/01/2001]
An article about Yinnon Hiller's decision not to join the army on ground
so his pacifism, the path he chose and how it affected his family.
There is Wisdom in Fear
[By: Deby
Birnbaum, 26/10/1999]
Essay written by Deby Birnbaum, founding memeber of New Profile to Ms.
Paz Melamed, Editor to Women Magazine, Ma'ariv Daily
Ten Reasons to Oppose US
Militarization of Aid and Reconstruction in Iraq [By:
Yifat Susskind, MADRE, 30/04/2003]
The US insists on exercising direct military control over the
administration of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Iraq. We
believe these processes should be handled by independent agencies of the
United Nations. Here are 10 reasons why.
Why Environmentalists
Oppose War and Militarism [By: Gar
Smith, Environmentalists Against War, 01/01/2004]
The following statement by Environmentalists Against War provides
arguments for preserving peace and promoting diplomacy as alternatives
to war.
People with Guns [By: Neta
Rotem]
Pictures taken by Neta Rotem, reflecting militarism in Isareli society
Militarization of
Knowledge [By:
Adina Aviram, 01/06/2003]
New-Profile as Antithesis to Militarism
Controlling the "Other":
Militarization and Bioengineering [By:
Adina Aviram, 13/10/2003]
This was presented in Berlin at the working conference on: Within and
Beyond the Limits of Human Nature
Voting with our feet:
women (and children) in Israel making new move(ment)s [By: Rela
Mazali]
Israelis often describe their society as "child-oriented". Given the
evidence, is this indeed the case? Or is it in fact a society that
devalues children and youth?
“AND WHAT ABOUT THE
GIRLS?” [By: Rela
Mazali]
“‘And What About the Girls?’: What a Culture of War Genders Out of View,”
Nashim:A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Issues, (forthcoming
2003).
An analysis of how Israel's militarized culture marginalizes and erases
risks to, and act
My Draft Resistance –
Ten Stops along the Way [By:
Shani Werner]
A Letter [By:
Shani Werner, 31/12/2002]
My Draft Resistance
[By:
Danya Vaknin]
Part of a project of collecting testimonies of women draft resisters in
Israel
My Draft Resistance
[By: Tal
Matalon, 23/02/2003]
Part of a project of collecting testimonies of women draft resisters in
Israel
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Grundsatzerklärung
Wir, eine Gruppe feministischer Frauen und
Männer, sind davon überzeugt, dass wir nicht in einem
Soldatenstaat leben müssen.
Heutzutage wäre Israel zu einer
entschlossenen Friedenspolitik fähig. Es muss keine
militarisierte Gesellschaft sein. Wir sind davon überzeugt, dass
wir uns selbst, unsere Kinder und unsere PartnerInnen, nicht
endlos mobilisieren lassen müssen. Wir müssen nicht als
KriegerInnen leben. Wir haben gelernt, dass der Kriegszustand in
Israel durch Entscheidungen der PolitikerInnen aufrecht erhalten
wird - nicht durch ausländische Kräfte, denen wir passiv
ausgesetzt sind. Während uns gelehrt wird, zu glauben, dass sich
das Land einer Bedrohung außerhalb seiner Kontrolle
gegenübersieht, stellen wir nun fest, dass der Begriff
"nationale Sicherheit" oft verschleiert hat, dass
wohl-kalkulierte Entscheidungen für den Einsatz des Militärs der
Durchsetzung politischer Ziele diente.
Wir sind nicht länger bereit, dabei
mitzumachen. Wir werden es ihnen nicht weiter durch unseren
Gehorsam ermöglichen, sie auf unkritische Weise mit SoldatInnen,
ihren Werkzeugen, zu versorgen. Wir werden uns nicht weiter
mobilisieren lassen, nicht Kinder für die Rekrutierung
großziehen, keine einberufenen PartnerInnen, Brüder, Väter
unterstützen, während diejenigen, die für das Land
verantwortlich sind, weiter fortfahren, leichtfertig die Armee
einzusetzen, statt andere Lösungen aufzubauen.
Es ist schwer, heute eine solche Meinung in
Israel zu vertreten. In einem Soldatenstaat gibt es gleiche und
weniger gleiche Bürger: Oben auf der sozialen Leiter stehen die,
die kämpfen. Und dies sind "unfehlbare" Männer. Zudem sind es in
Israel jüdische Männer. Als Krieger erhalten sie privilegiertes
Wissen und haben Vorrang bei Entscheidungen. Positionen, die
Zweifel über die "Sicherheit" von Entscheidungen aufwerfen, den
enormen Militäretat des Staates oder die andauernde Politik der
militärischen Konfrontation in Frage stellen, werden als "naiv",
"hysterisch" oder "ignorant" gebrandmarkt. Eine Haltung, die das
grundsätzliche Prinzip, sich vom Militär erfassen zu lassen, in
Frage stellt, ist in einem Soldatenstaat unverständlich. Sie
wird als illegitim abgelehnt.
Unsere Position - die "ignorante" - ist frei
von den Verstandesvorgaben, die für den seit Jahrzehnten
fortdauernden Krieg verantwortlich sind. Es ist eine Position,
die das Leben und den Schutz des Lebens in den Vordergrund
stellt. Sie duldet stillschweigend schmerzhafte Kompromisse im
Interesse des Schutzes von Leben. Die Herrschaftskultur in
Israel nährt die Bewunderung für Macht und körperliche
Tapferkeit, die Erhöhung von Juden und die Abwertung des Lebens
von Arabern.
Das militarisierte Bewusstsein sieht die
Option des Krieges als vernünftig an. Junge Menschen lassen sich
erfassen und setzen ihr Vertrauen auf die Klugheit und
Ehrlichkeit derjenigen, die für die Ableistung des Dienstes
werben. Jeder von uns ist ihnen und sich selbst Rechenschaft
schuldig. Jedes Elternteil ist aktiv an der Erziehung von Söhnen
und Töchtern zu SoldatInnen beteiligt. Und doch gibt es viele
Frauen und Männer, Eltern und Jugendliche, die zutiefst
moralisch die andauernde Entscheidung Israels zum Krieg
ablehnen. Wir widersetzen uns dem Gebrauch militärischer Mittel
jenseits der Grünen Linie zur Aufrechterhaltung der israelischen
Souveränität.
Wir lehnen den Gebrauch von Armee, Polizei
und Sicherheitskräften bei der andauernden Unterdrückung und
Diskriminierung der palästinensischen Bürger von Israel ab, die
Zerstörung ihrer Häuser, die Verweigerung des Aufbaus und der
Entwicklung ihrer Rechte, den Gebrauch von Gewalt, um ihre
Demonstrationen aufzulösen. Es gibt seit vielen Jahren eine
weitverbreitete Opposition zu der der israelischen Armee
zugewiesenen Rolle, Tausende von jungen Frauen und Männern
entziehen sich gegenwärtig der Wehrpflicht oder den
Reservediensten. Etwa 25% der jährlichen Rekrutierungsjahrgänge
werden gegenwärtig als untauglich eingestuft. Es ist allgemein
bekannt, dass sich der größte Teil von ihnen entschieden hat,
nicht zu dienen. Sie fühlen sich unfähig, sich mit der Tragweite
und Bedeutung des heutigen Militärdienstes in Israel zu
identifizieren. Ohne Möglichkeit der Kriegsdienstverweigerung,
stellt sich die Ausmusterung praktisch als einziger Weg dar. Die
Wahl, die Armee zu verlassen, ist sogar unter ReservistInnen
weit verbreitet. Armeesprecher haben erklärt, dass nur ein
Drittel der Reservekräfte tatsächlich aktiven Dienst ableisten.
Wir alle wissen, wie stark unter ihnen der Wunsch besteht, den
Dienst zu vermeiden ("Zwielichtverweigerung").
Derzeit erkennt das israelische Recht das
Menschenrecht auf Kriegsdienstverweigerung bei Männern nicht an.
Wir halten das israelische Wehrpflichtgesetz für diskriminierend
und undemokratisch, und fordern die Anerkennung des
grundlegenden Rechtes jeder Person, eingeschlossen der Männer,
in Übereinstimmung mit ihrem Gewissen handeln zu können. Auch
junge Frauen müssen sich einer erniedrigenden Befragung durch
das militärische Komitee zur Prüfung von Ausnahmen unterziehen.
Wir dringen auch für Frauen auf eine Revision der Verfahren zur
Prüfung von Ausnahmen bei Gewissensgründen. Nach dem eigenen
Gewissen zu handeln, ist das fundamentale Recht jedes Mannes und
jeder Frau. Wir rufen zur Anerkennung des Rechtes von Männern
und Frauen auf, ihre soziale Verantwortung in Form eines
alternativen zivilen Dienstes auszudrücken, der innerhalb eines
breiten Spektrums von Gemeinschaftsdiensten, inklusive von
Arbeitsstellen bei nichtstaatlichen Organisationen, durchgeführt
werden kann.
Wir weigern uns, unsere Kinder weiter mit dem
Ziel aufzuziehen, die Einberufung als höchsten und
vorherrschenden Wert anzusehen. Wir wollen ein grundlegend
verändertes Ausbildungssystem, für eine wahrhaft demokratische
zivile Erziehung, das Lehren von Praktiken des Friedens und der
Konfliktlösung, anstatt Kindern beizubringen, die Einberufung
und den Krieg zu akzeptieren.
Kontakt: New Profile, POB 48005, Tel
Aviv 61480, Email:
ghiller@haogen.org.il http://www.newprofile.org
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www.newprofile.org. Übersetzung aus dem Englischen: Rudi
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