And after he declared in writing that, like every officer and soldier in the IDF, he was obligated to obey legal orders and refuse to obey illegal and immoral orders - he was promoted to the rank of major. Part of the meaning of 'citizenship' in a democratic country is to refuse to do undemocratic deeds. It's true that each individual determines what is an undemocratic deed. For me, occupying another people is clearly undemocratic. My motivation is definitely political, as I don't believe that there is such a thing as conscience.
Conscience is the internalization of a certain ideology and set of values.
What unites the Yesh Gvul people is that we use each person's individual refusal as a tool for political change. The more people who refuse, the better. In his day, the late Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz had similar things to say. During the previous Intifada, we knew that for every reserve soldier in jail for refusing to serve, there were another 10 who had refused but were not sent to jail. There were about five regular soldiers who refused.