Sunday, December 21, 2008

Israel's Conscience

Name: Tamar Katz
Age: 19
Location: Tel-Aviv
Why I am one of the Shministim:“I refuse to enlist in the Israeli military on conscientious grounds. I am not willing to become part of an occupying army, that has been an invader of foreign lands for decades, which perpetuates a racist regime of robbery in these lands, tyrannizes civilians and makes life difficult for millions under a false pretext of security.”


Shministim means “twelfth-graders” in Hebrew. Military service is mandatory after high school for young Jewish Israelis. The Shministim are Israeli youth who refuse to serve in the army because it enforces Israel’s 40-year occupation of the Palestinians.

Because of their principled refusal to serve in an occupying army, youth who sign the letter face jail terms in Israeli military prisons. Terms range from 21 to 28 days; those who refuse to wear a military uniform while in jail are sent to solitary confinement for the duration of their term.

After completing their sentence, they are then drafted again and if they refuse a second time, as most do, they face the same sentence. This can be a repeated process in which Shministim return home for a few days or longer and are then drafted and then imprisoned. Even through they refuse to serve, they still in a sense ‘belong’ to the military until they receive their discharge papers. A Shministi may never receive these papers, and although the Israeli military may tire of re-calling objectors into prison regularly, without these papers, an objector’s fate is always uncertain. There is literally no end to the number of times youth might be sent back to jail.

8 Comments:

At 4:49 AM, December 29, 2008 , Blogger cakapaje said...

Salam,

I don't know whether you really are a male or female (think you are a male), but I'm calling you bro all the same.

Regarding the Shministim, there's more of them going to jail it seems, as reported in Windows Into Palestine.

 
At 10:47 AM, December 29, 2008 , Blogger Intellectual Insurgent said...

Thanks for stopping by Cakapaje and Salam. Although it's underreported in the Western media, the conscientious objectors of Israel are growing in number each day. I don't know how long they can continue their atrocities without their entire population truly losing their souls.

 
At 12:56 PM, January 05, 2009 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

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At 3:47 PM, January 10, 2009 , Blogger tordon said...

It is a fair point that both sides of the issue be thoroughly explored.




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