Breaking Ranks : Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip - Ronit Chacham

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Breaking Ranks

Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

By: Ronit Chacham

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Paperback | 17 January 2003

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In a series of moving and provocative conversations, nine members of the Israeli Defense Force tell why they refused to serve in the West Bank and Gaza. The "Refuseniks" describe their risky moral decision against the background of what is perhaps the most volatile conflict in the world today: the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. Their individual choices and their collective activism have generated intense debate in Israel and the international community, from the leading Israeli newspaper Ha''Aretz to a segment on 60 Minutes.

In a sociocultural mosaic of the Refusenik movement and the political context in which it arose, these men describe their individual family backgrounds and beliefs. Dedicated to the welfare of their country and its cultural heritage, they outline their concerns for the future of Israel. As they tell their stories of personal struggle, they also raise the disturbing and highly controversial issue of human rights abuses in the occupied territories.

These personal accounts offer new perspectives on some entrenched ideas about the situation in the Middle East. The testimony in Breaking Ranks is essential background for a full understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this time of grave crisis in the Middle East, with no solution in sight to repair the utter collapse of the peace process, these voices offer a message of hope in their commitment to their society and nation.

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"Military service is an integral part of life in Israel: both men and women serve in the Israel Defense Forces; devotion to the country's survival is a given. So disobeying an order is a remarkable action - one discussed in depth here by nine 'refuseniks,' Israeli soldiers who refused to serve in the Occupied Territories. They tell Chacham...about their upbringings, their crises of conscience, the mistreatment of Palestinians by themselves and others, their attempt to reconcile support for Palestinian rights with devotion to their homeland, their refusals to serve and the consequences. Anyone trying to understand why these men have taken the action they have will be moved by their thoughtfulness and articulateness." - Publishers Weekly; "This book should be read by those of all political views concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These accounts and interviews will surprise, sadden, shock, infuriate, but most of all, stimulate open-minded readers to consider alternatives to their strongly held views. This is an ultimately hopeful book. I was profoundly moved by it." - David Gordis, President, Hebrew College; "Ronit Chacham's exemplary oral history and commentaries portray in depressing yet hopeful detail those courageous and principled Israelis who have refused to participate as soldiers in Israel's occupied Palestinian lands....An end to the bitter civil war may not be in sight, but at least we have these remarkable men to prove that war and killing never brings peace and that some are brave enough to say 'No.' " - The Jewish Peace Fellowship"

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Landmarks in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	p. 1
Sergeant First Class (Res.) Assaf Oron	p. 15
Major (Res.) Rami Kaplan	p. 35
Lieutenant (Res.) Yaniv Iczkovitz	p. 51
Staff Sergeant (Res.) Tal Belo	p. 63
Lieutenant (Res.) Guy Grossman	p. 77
Staff Sergeant (Res.) Shamai Leibowitz	p. 87
Lieutenant (Res.) Yuval Lotem	p. 105
Staff Sergeant (Res.) Ishay Rosen-Zvi	p. 121
Private David Chacham-Herson	p. 137
Maps	p. 153
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Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

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