posted May 16, 2004 09:31 PM              

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I’m very afraid of one moment. I pray that this moment will never come, but in my imagination it is very clear, with all the details:

I open the newspaper. There is an item about the death of a close friend. I scream in my heart: ‘your death is awful. Your death was not necessary. The government led to it when it led an unnecessary war’.

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no, this is not from america, and that is not an american speaking

it is from a young israeli, one of five who are now in prison

why? israel is apparently less tolerant than we are about not going along with "the plan"

but then they have been at it longer...long enough for these young men to grow up witnessing the slow dehumanization that was diminishing both the arabs and the jews--the dehumanization that we have only begun here in america

they refused to be a part of what they concluded was wrong enough that they were willing to face prison

i urge you all to read the compelling stories of these refusniks for yourselves at:
http://www.refuz.org.il/News.html