Reserve pilots to refuse liquidations

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A group of reserve pilots in the Israel Air Force
is planning to publicly announce their refusal to
participate in attempts to assassinate senior
wanted men in the Palestinian Authority.

The group has been discussing
the initiative for more than
three months and members say
that they have been badly torn.
According to sources in the
movement of soldiers who refuse
to serve in the territories,
the group is in the process of
collecting the last signatures
and is waiting for "the right
moment" to issue its announcement.

The various refusal movements view the pilots'
planned declaration as a big boost for their
cause, due to the special status enjoyed by
pilots in Israeli society, and hope that it
will shake up Israelis in a way that "ordinary"
refusals have not. Though one pilot joined the
refusal movement at the start of the intifada,
and though there were a few incidents during
the Lebanon War of pilots refusing to bomb
specific targets, a declaration by an organized
group of pilots would be something new.

The pilots initially considered joining one of
the existing refusal movements, such as Courage
to Refuse - the group of soldiers and officers
who signed a declaration of refusal to serve in
the territories more than 18 months ago.
However, they eventually decided to form an
independent group.

Haaretz

[tinnypriv]

1. Damn, I was just posting this

http://www.refusersolidarity.net :)

[bemildred]

2. Hey, it's not a contest, I just got lucky.

:thumbsup:

[madrchsod]

3. what a interesting idea

refusing to be a war criminal. wasn`t that idea used to try the germans after ww2? you should have refused to carry out war crimes..and isn`t this why bush won`t join the war crimes treaty and cutting deals with countries not to try our soldiers who commit war crimes?

[DuctapeFatwa]

4. Thanks for posting this - and Bless these Pilots!

We get so much raw bloody sadistic man's inhumanity to man, both in the press and in here, it is an inexpressible pleasure to be reminded that there are human beings, albeit few and far between, with the decency to say "NO."

[Jim Sagle]

5. Hey, maybe this'll catch on. Maybe Hamas will stop

blowing up school buses.

[bemildred]

6. Seems worth a try anyway.

[dfong63]

7. you're right for once,

in that until Israel stops attacking the Palestinians, it's not realistic to expect the Palestinian suicide bombs to stop either.

[mmm]

9. You are quite right

if I ship text books on "Why I Must be a Refusenik"
to Israeli schools will I get a tax break?

[dfong63]

8. bravo