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Titolo: Reserve pilots to refuse liquidations of Arafat

By Lily Galili
A group of reserve pilots in the Israel Air Force
is planning to publicly announce their refusal to
participate in attempts to assassinate senior
wanted men in the Palestinian Authority.
Ha'aretz 9-19-03 Elul 22, 5763
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/342136.html
The group has been discussing the initiative for more
than three months and members say that they have been
badly torn. According to sources in the movement of
soldiers who refuse to serve in the territories, the
group is in the process of collecting the last
signatures and is waiting for "the right moment" to
issue its announcement.
The various refusal movements view the pilots' planned
declaration as a big boost for their cause, due to the
special status enjoyed by pilots in Israeli society,
and hope that it will shake up Israelis in a way that
"ordinary" refusals have not. Though one pilot joined
the refusal movement at the start of the intifada, and
though there were a few incidents during the Lebanon
War of pilots refusing to bomb specific targets, a
declaration by an organized group of pilots would be
something new.
The pilots initially considered joining one of the
existing refusal movements, such as Courage to Refuse -
the group of soldiers and officers who signed a
declaration of refusal to serve in the territories more
than 18 months ago. However, they eventually decided to
form an independent group.
Since Courage to Refuse was founded, with 50 members,
more than 500 soldiers have signed its letter of
refusal. However, the group has failed in its goal of
provoking a public discourse over the continued
occupation of the territories and Israel Defense
Forces actions there. It is now hoping that the pilots'
declaration will succeed where it has failed.

 wanted men in the Palestinian Authority.
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They shouldn't use their posts as a political platform. And this is
what it is, driving a leftist political agenda and nothing more.
The IDF is targeting terrorists and saving life of Israelis while
minimizing collateral damage to the local Arab population. This is the
most morale thing to do.
I'm posting here a few readers replies from Ma'ariv:
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As a pilot who served with Spector I am so ashamed by the left wing
political defeatism introduced by these airmen into the great and
proud Israeli Air Force. As throughout our long history we are our own
worst enemy. While they have the right to say whatever they want it is
unacceptable to bring this misguided ideas into the world of the IDF
that MUST stay non-political and serve the citizens of Israel. Their
wings and ranks must be taken from them
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To all of you 27 pilots, If you read all the responses to this point
(234 now) you will find out that 99% responded against you and
condemned you. You opened yourself a Pandora Box. I dont care about
your military past (I have past too as an officer in Sayeret Matcal),
you need to be put on trial, thrown to jail and have the jailers throw
away the key
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the israeli sociaty is the most absord of all sociaties to exist.
this is the reson why we are attacked and killed, we have no back
bone, we hide behind superior morality , yet we are divided and
opinintaed and out of touch with reality. there is no other country in
the world that would accept such suicide boming, yet there is no other
country that will allow soldier to refuse commands and express their
opinions this way, i love peace, i can even say i am obn the left
willing to give land for peace and more, yet these rae the the
foundamnal morals that we as a sociaty didnt asimilate yet, its a
sociaty that came out of the concenration camps with deep self hatred
and lack of integerity, we didnt build ourself as a nation all we do
is react emotionely to a threat, always on the defense and with out an
inner power to whom and what we are, our identitty as the victims is
back lashing at us , we must move forward - AND FIND A NEW IDENETITY ,
THATS TRUE, BUT WE MUST PUNISH THOSE THAT EVEN THINK THAT THEY HAVE
THE RIGHT TO REFUSE COND, THEY MUST BE REALASED FROMN THE AF AT ONCE,
AND WE MUST MAKE A DEEP INTROSPECTION TO FIND WHAT IN OUR ESSENCE HAD
BROUGHT US TO THIS PLACE
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Send them to be security guards on public buses
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