Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Sharon è un criminale di guerra

Va processato come è stato fatto con Milosevic, se ci fosse giustizia a
questo mondo obbligheremmo Israele a consegnarcelo dietro minaccia di
bombardare le loro città, anche se la contraerea israeliana è molto più
efficiente di quella Yugoslava ed avremmo molte perdite non potrebbero
resisterci a lungo, fantasticavo, putroppo l'Europa è solo una provincia
dell'impero americano, negli USA ci sono il doppio degli ebrei che vivono
in Israele, controllano molti mezzi d'informazione non ci resta che
abbassare il capo e adeguarci al nostro ruolo di sudditi.
P.S. Non
sono antisemita ma quello ch'è stato fatto a Jenin è ingiustificabile, è
come uccidere una mosca con una cannonata, per arrestare 200-300 terroristi
hanno raso al suolo intere città e hanno violato i diritti umani degli
abitanti delle stesse, non lo dicono i palestinesi che io ritengo
inaffidabili e bugiardi, come tutti gli arabi, ma Amnesty International e
le organizzazioni umanitarie dell'ONU!
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e le organizzazioni umanitarie dell'ONU!
Che sono controllate da paesi che AI dichiara tra i peggiori del mondo
per i diritti umani ;) :))
*ROTFL*
-Stefano

tutti gli arabi che io ritengo inaffidabili e bugiardi!! e gli indiani?i
polacchi?gli spagnoli?e degli italiani stupidi disinformati qualunquisti
pressapochisti ed ignoranti come te cosa ne pensi??cerca di essere
serio!!

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Gli arabi sono gentaglia!
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For those who bear the instruments of war - and we 
are among them,
Some in practice,
Some by a hug of approval -
Are 
sucked, mumbling "necessity" and "vengeance",
Into the domain of war 
crimes.


 


Nathan Alterman, 1948


 


Yesh Gvul is a small group with limited resources, 
human and financial alike. But the unique thrust of its campaign has had an 
electrifying effect on the broader peace movement, which drew inspiration from 
the moral example set by individuals prepared to suffer for their convictions. 
Other peace movements confined themselves to verbal protest, stopping short at 
the direct challenge to conventional authority represented by refusal. But Yesh 
Gvul rejected the "shoot-and-cry" syndrome; its own slogan - "We don't shoot, we 
don't cry, and we don't serve in the occupied territories !" - made the group a 
spearhead of the Israeli peace movement.


 


THE DICTATES OF CONSCIENCE


 


 


 


SELECTIVE REFUSAL


 


"Selective refusal" is a uniquely Israeli concept, 
though sporadic protests on similar lines have been recorded in other armies. 
Selective refusal applies the principles of civil disobedience, as pioneered by 
Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr., to a military context. While 
acknowledging the legality of universal military service, it stresses the right 
and duty of every soldier to scrutinize the orders he receives, and reject 
assignments he finds morally or politically repugnant. Unlike pacifism or 
conscientious objection, selective refusal recognizes circumstances when force 
is legitimate, as in defense against external aggression, or in pursuit of 
national liberation from foreign tyranny. 
But it rejects 
the abuse of military might for unworthy ends, such as wars of aggression, or 
violent subjugation of a civilian population
. 


 


NEW LEAFLET FOR SOLDIERS


 


This is a translation of the current Yesh Gvul 
leaflet for distribution to IDF soldiers:


 


SOLDIER


 


We all want to defend our country.
We're all 
sick and tired of terrorism.
We all want peace.
But do our actions permit 
of an end to the cycle of bloodshed ?


 


Since 1967, Israel has ruled over 
3.5 million Palestinians, running their lives by means of a forcible occupation, 
with continual violations of human rights.


 


The occupation regime has merely 
exacerbated Israel's security problems; at this time, it endangers the life of 
each one of its citizens, yours included !


 


SOLDIER, it's in your hands !


 


Ask yourself whether your actions in the course of 
your military service enhance national security ? Or do those actions merely 
fuel the enmity and the acts of violence between us and our Palestinian 
neighbours ?


 


YOU CAN STOP THE VIOLENCE
SOLDIER: THE 
OCCUPATION BREEDS TERRORISM


 


When you take part in 
extrajudicial killings ("liquidation" in the army's terms);
When you take 
part in demolishing residential homes;
When you open fire at unarmed civilian 
population or residential homes;
When you uproot orchards
When you 
interdict food supplies or medical treatment -


 


YOU ARE TAKING PART IN 
ACTIONS DEFINED IN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS (SUCH AS THE FOURTH GENEVA 
CONVENTION) AND IN ISRAELI LAW, AS WAR CRIMES
.


 


As far back as 40 years ago, an Israeli court ruled 
that a soldier is forbidden to obey a flagrantly illegal order.


 


Soldier - do you consider such war crimes 
justifiable ?


 


Don't acts of "liquidation" provoke suicide 
bombings ?
Is it justifiable to demolish the homes and vandalise the property 
of entire families ?
Can one justify the killing of children, women, old 
people - or, overall, of unarmed civilians ?
What are the "security" grounds 
to justify starving entire villages and depriving the sick of medical care 
?


 


Soldier: don't these daily acts of repression, 
which are part of the routine of the occupation - curfew and blockade, land 
confiscation, preventing people from working or studying, the run-around and 
humiliation at the roadblocks and the violent searches in Palestinian homes - 
fuel hatred of us ?


 


END THE OCCUPATION - END THE CYCLE OF BLOODSHED 
!


 


SOLDIER: THE OCCUPATION CAUSES LOSS OF 
LIFE


 


Even the heads of the defence establishment concede 
that there is no military solution to terrorism.


 


"All the preventative work we've done this past 
year is like trying to empty out the sea with a teaspoon," a senior security 
official admitted. ("Haaretz", 19.12.2001)


 


Ami Ayalon, former head of the Shabak security 
police, says: "An ideology can't be killed by killing leaders."


 


Soldier, is there a people anywhere in the world 
that will not resist an occupation regime ?
If you were in the Palestinians' 
shoes, would you be willing to bow your head to a foreign ruler ?


 


Two years ago, we were convinced that the 
occupation of southern Lebanon was vital for our security. Twenty years ago, we 
were certain that our occupation of the Sinai peninsula guaranteed our 
security.
But thanks to termination of our occupation of those areas, we have 
avoided shedding the blood of our soldiers.


 


Since the onset of the current intifada, over a 
thousand Israelis and Palestinians have been killed, most of them unarmed 
civilians taking no part in the fighting. As long as we hold on to the occupied 
Palestinian territories, we will continue to shed our own blood and that of the 
Palestinians.


 


END THE OCCUPATION - END THE BLOODSHED 
!


 


SOLDIER: THE OCCUPATION UNDERMINES OUR 
COUNTRY


 


We are all concerned for the wellbeing of the state 
of Israel. We all want the state to invest more in education, social services, 
health, and development of our infrastructure.


 


But to maintain the occupation, the state spends 
billions on upkeep of the army in the territories, on settlements, on laying 
bypass roads and all the rest.


 


The state is cutting back on civilian services to 
enlarge the military budget.
The occupation, and the violence that it 
prompts, drag the economy down into recession. Investors are in flight, tourists 
stay away, entire sections of the economy are in collapse.


 


Wouldn't it be preferable to use the money to 
reinforce our social structures ?
Wouldn't it be preferable to channel the 
funds to our crumbling health and education systems ?
Is it just to neglect 
the aged, the handicapped and the unemployed in favour of further settlements 
?


 


END THE OCCUPATION, PUBLIC ALLOTMENTS TO THE 
DISADVANTAGED, NOT THE SETTLEMENTS !


 


SOLDIER, THE OCCUPATION UNDERMINES THE 
ARMY


 


The occupation is harmful to the army and its 
soldiers. Training is called off because soldiers spend so much time on routine 
duty in the territories - guarding settlements, protecting highways, and forays 
into Palestinian towns and villages.


 


Soldiers are required to serve under inhuman 
conditions - like the four soldiers of the armour corps who spent 234 
uninterrupted hours in their tank. In order to sustain the occupation, they 
weren't even allowed out to relieve themselves.


 


Military sources admit the occupation routine 
subjects soldiers to exhaustion - and exhaustion leads to a decline in fitness 
and causes accidents.


 


Wouldn't it be better to dedicate the time to the 
country's real defence needs ?


 


Ending the occupation will restore the army's 
combat readiness.


 


Wouldn't it be better to reduce the burden borne by 
reservists and grant conscripts better conditions ?


 


END THE OCCUPATION - REDUCE MILITARY SERVICE TO TWO 
YEARS !!
CUT DOWN THE BURDEN OF RESERVE DUTY !!


 


SOLDIER


 


There are acts that decent people don't commit, 
even if they're given orders ! Decent people don't demolish homes; they don't 
kill children, women and babies; they don't starve the neighbouring people, and 
don't deny medical care to people just like you and me.
Such conduct weakens 
our country's moral fibre.


 


These acts are actually harmful, even if we're told 
they're for "security purposes". Every "liquidation" (killing) prompts a 
bombing. The child you wounded today is tomorrow's terrorist.
Anyone 
concerned for national security won't do things that fuel 
terrorism.


 


SOLDIER - IT'S IN YOUR HANDS


 


We don't have a surefire recipe. Make up your own 
mind, guided by your conscience, your feelings, your convictions. We can't take 
the decision for you. We can only tell you that many, very many soldiers, have 
said "NO !" to war crimes !
From the Lebanon war, right up to the present 
intifada, thousands of soldiers - conscripts and reservists - have plucked up 
the courage to say "NO !"


 


Anyone who decides to refuse, reaches that decision 
on his own. But when he does make up his mind, he will find us extending a 
helping hand, offering advice, support and help.


 


For those who gird on implement of war -
And 
that includes us -
Whether in fact,
Or by an acquiescent slap on the 
back,
Are propelled,
Mumbling 'necessity' or 'revenge',
Into the domain 
of war criminals.


 


Nathan Alterman, 1948


 


 


 


 


 


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CONTACTING YESH GVUL


 


 


 


Address: Yesh Gvul,PO Box 6953, Jerusalem 91068, 
ISRAEL


 


Telephone:  + 972 2 
6250271
Fax:            

+ 972 2 6434171
E-mail: 
per...@yesh-gvul.org
        


 


Contributions can be sent to our address, or 
transferred to our bank account:


 


Yesh Gvul, Acct no. 366614. Bank Hapoalim, King 
George St. Branch (690), Jerusalem, Israel.


 


U.S. citizens: To contribute (tax deductible), 
funders should make a check out to "The Shefa Fund" and include the notation 
"Israeli Reservists Fund - Yesh Gvul" in the memo line. Checks should be sent to 
The Shefa Fund, 8459 Ridge Avenue, Second Floor, Philadelphia, PA 
19128


 


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:


 


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 come uccidere una mosca con una cannonata, per arrestare 200-300
terroristi
E se i palestinesi, arrestavano loro, i due o trecento terroristi, non
facevano meglio? Chi di spada ferisce, di spada perisce, è una regola che i
palestinesi dovrebbero imparare.
Ad'I