Soldier refuses to serve

Submitted by Anon on 13 August, 2006 - 5:13

An Israeli soldier — Staff Sergeant Itzik Shabbat — has refused to comply with an emergency order (Tsav 8) to report today for reserve duty in Lebanon.

Shabbat said, “In my opinion, only this type of opposition that I've chosen will put an end to the madness that is going on now and will shatter the false feeling that the entire home front supports this unnecessary war that is based on deceptive considerations. Someone has to be the first to break the silence and it will be me. It is a shame that my order was signed by another Sderot resident, Defense Minister Amir Peretz.”

Shabbat has refused to serve in the Occupied Territories before — going to prison for 28 days. He was one of the signatories to the petition of the refusal movement, Courage to Refuse. The larger Yesh Gvul movement started by opposing the 1982 Lebanon war and only later the Occupied Territories, too.

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