FOR DECADES ISRAEL has justified the unequal status of its Arab citizens, who now compose 19% of the population (1.4 million), by pointing out that they do not serve in the army. This claim is easily dispelled. Many Bedouin do…
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Refusal on the Right
After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead…
Breaking Silence
“BREAKING SILENCE” is a movement of soldiers who have served in the Occupied Territories and have decided to tell the Israeli public what they have done and seen. The group began organizing in the spring of 2004. Some 65 soldiers…
Confession Is Not Enough
THE members of “Breaking Silence” seek to show the Israeli public “what they undergo in the Territories.” They publicize the shame they feel and the pain they suffer because they are forced to kill, humiliate and harm Palestinians. They must…