We,
reserve combat officers and soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces,
who were raised upon the principles of Zionism, sacrifice and giving
to the people of Israel and to the State of Israel, who have always
served in the front lines, and who were the first to carry out any
mission, light or heavy, in order to protect the State of Israel
and strengthen it.
We,
combat officers and soldiers who have served the State of Israel
for long weeks every year, in spite of the dear cost to our personal
lives, have been on reserve duty all over the Occupied Territories,
and were issued commands and directives that had nothing to do with
the security of our country, and that had the sole purpose of perpetuating
our control over the Palestinian people. We, whose eyes have seen
the bloody toll this Occupation exacts from both sides.
We,
who sensed how the commands issued to us in the Territories, destroy
all the values we had absorbed while growing up in this country.
We,
who understand now that the price of Occupation is the loss of IDF's
human character and the corruption of the entire Israeli society.
We,
who know that the Territories are not Israel, and that all settlements
are bound to be evacuated in the end.
We
hereby declare that we shall not continue to fight this War of the
Settlements.
We
shall not continue to fight beyond the 1967 borders in order to
dominate, expel, starve and humiliate an entire people.
We
hereby declare that we shall continue serving in the Israel Defense
Forces in any mission that serves Israel's defense.
The
missions of occupation and oppression do not serve this purpose--
and we shall take no part in them.
from http://www.seruv.org.il/defaultEng.asp
