Autor:    14/08/2020  Asunto:     En respuesta a:  Mensaje 3668 (escrito por "Andres Angel" ) "Andres Angel" <andangel@hotmail.com> dijo: > > > > > >From: Institut für Globale Friedensarbeit <IGF@tamera.org> > >To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;> > >Subject: Israel: Soldiers who say NO! > >Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 17:57:31 +0200 > > > > > >To the courageous soldiers who say "NO!" 2nd of April > >2002 > > > > > >"We will not go on fighting beyond the 'green line' for the purposes of > >domination, expulsion, starvation and humiliation of an entire people". > > > >From the declaration of combat officers and soldiers of the IDF published > >in the Ha'aretz on the 27th of January 2002 > > > > > > > >My name is Benjamin von Mendelssohn and I work at the "Institute for Global > >Peace Work" in Tamera, Portugal. We in Tamera read the declaration quoted > >above and hope began to rise. > > > > > > > >I am not a young Israeli soldier who is asked to fulfil the inhuman orders > >of the occupation. I do not know what I would do if I were in this > >situation. I live in the relative safety of a peace project in Portugal. > > > >From here I want to express my deep respect, my gratitude and my solidarity > >to the growing number of young men who refuse to serve in the occupied > >territories. > > > >It is a service of peace to the world to take on the consequences that this > >decision brings along in a militaristic society. > > > > > > > >I know the story of a friend of mine who served in the IDF. He realized the > >insanity of it when his best friend was blown to pieces right next to him. > >He quit the army and quit the country. > > > >But he also told me about the fascination to hold a gun, the surge of power > >that one feels when you "can take somebody down from a 100 meters distance > >as a sniper". > > > >This is the disease of a male society. We get trained what it means to be a > >man right from the beginning. We hardly get trained what it means to be a > >human. > > > >But we young men should grow up instead of just growing old. We need to > >quit using violence to compensate the fear that we have inside. Fear that > >we project to the outside and then run fighting against it. Fear that > >threatens to strangle the whole globe. > > > >I hope more and more young men start to become fighters against that fear, > >freedom fighters. What about using all our male strength in body and mind > >for the protection of our planet? > > > > > > > >If this movement of courageous soldiers who say "NO!" to war - inside or > >outside - as the first Israeli soldiers do right now, would grow bigger, > >big enough that the discriminating punishments can not be kept up, then I > >could believe in a beginning peace process. > > > > > > > >They need our support now. The support of their mothers, who do not want to > >loose their sons, of their fathers, who might serve in the army themselves > >but nevertheless recognize the new, of their friends who know that it is > >easier to be courageous together. > > > >They need the support of international peace workers and peace initiatives > >who can provide rest, healing and a new orientation - simply through the > >advantage of not being involved directly. > > > > > > > >And then we all need a perspective, a peace plan in which we can believe. > > > >We need models for this peace. Places where peace can be researched, seen > >and felt. Places where peace and trust can grow between humans, between > >humans and animals, plants and all of creation. > > > > > > > >May these courageous soldiers be the beginning of a stronger global peace > >movement. > > > >May they grow into part of a movement for a free earth. > > > >Shalom and Salaam! > > > > > > > >Benjamin von Mendelssohn > > > > > > > >The homepage of the objectors and their declaration: > >http://www.seruv.org.il/ > > > >See also: "The Courage to Refuse" - campaign www.couragetorefuse.org > > > >----- > >IGF - Institut für Globale Friedensarbeit (Institute for Global Peace > >Work), Monte do Cerro, P-7630 Colos, www.tamera.org > >igf@tamera.org, Tel: +351-283 635 3-06, Fax: -74 > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > Eres miembro de esta lista, pero... > ¿sabes sacarle todo el provecho posible? > > Si todavía no has registrado tu cuenta con eListas.net (el servicio > que te hace llegar este mensaje), visítanos en > http://www.eListas.net/ml/58/#%+##K#%- > ¡Tenemos algo que contarte! > >