Israeli mothers who opposed occupation back new war

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28817468.htm

Israeli mothers who opposed occupation back new war

JERUSALEM, July 28 (Reuters) - Several members of a group of mothers, whose campaign against Israel's occupation of south Lebanon helped speed a withdrawal in 2000, back Israel's new offensive as necessary for the survival of the Jewish state.

"This is a war of no choice," said Zohara Antebi, a former member of the Four Mothers peace group set up in 1997 after 74 soldiers died in a helicopter crash on the way to Lebanon.

"It will determine whether Iran will control the Arab world. It will determine whether we will be able to survive against extreme Islam," she told the Haaretz daily.

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Rachel Ben-Dor, who founded the Four Mothers movement with three others and moved to the United States in 2001 after disbanding the group, was more outspoken.

"It's easy for me to sit here and talk. I'm not in a bomb shelter. And how dare I talk against the army. But brakes are needed and they don't have any. Everyone is in a frenzy to return to the old, well-known pattern," she said.

[Minstrel Boy]

1. "Several members"?

Isn't several a number between two and seven? The article's title suggests considerably more than that.

And "how dare I talk against the army" - I don't care who says that, that's a pathetic dereliction of responsibility.

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2. I wouldn't criticize them. They only know what their government tells

them. They have fears for their children and loved ones too. With the way the US and Israel spins their talking points it's easy to not know why shit is happening. We are not much better off than they are. Who are we stopping? And we have access to much more information.