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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 26. september 2005 / Timeline September 26, 2005
Version 3.525. September 2005, 27. September 2005
09/26/2005
Civil Resistance at the White House
By David Swanson
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3119
I got to the White House around noon and found hundreds of people
gathered awaiting the arrival of marchers who planned to get
themselves arrested protesting the war.
I ran into Mike Ferner of Veterans for Peace, who showed me the
paperwork from his arrest early this morning at the Pentagon. He
said he'd been one of 41 people arrested between 6:30 and nearly
7:30 a.m. at the Pentagon. Three Veterans for Peace members had
joined others from the War Resisters League. They'd shut down an
entrance and the Pentagon Metro stop. They were swiftly booked and
released, charged with "disobeying a lawful order" and given court
dates in federal district court in Alexandria in January...
09/26/2005
Oldest reservist refuser organization accused of treason
"It's about the moral standards of the state of Israel" we hear
veteran Yesh Gvul activist Yoav Haas defend his organization's
campaign on TV talk shows. "When the Supreme Court hesitates to
deal with war crimes then the only way left is to turn to
international courts."
The accusations of "treason" are again in the air. After all, it's
not nothing, to make a retired general of the Israeli army escape
from London, in order to avoid interrogation over war crimes.
The war crime discussion began to be an issue in the Israel
discours in January 2002, after a public debate organized by Gush
Shalom ( full transcript at
http://gush-shalom.org/archives/forum_eng.html ). Following the
highly-publicized seminar Gush Shalom started writing warning
letters to officers who admitted to (somes boasted of) violations
of the Geneva Convention. This led later that year to a
government-orchestrated hate campaign against the peace group.
Meanwhile, Yesh Gvul took up the baton and did the decisive next
step, actually bringing charges - first to the Israeli Supreme
Court, and now to a British court. Read more
http://www.yeshgvul.org.il/english/news/?id=420adae106cdbd40b80f5bb03d4c0b10
In this context next article is a must read; therefore we
translated it:
Voices of the soldiers
By Yonathan Geffen
Ma'ariv, 23/9/2005
(...) After hearing these voices from the ground, you can't help
thinking that there might be something to issuing an arrest warrant
in London against an Israeli general accused of war crimes during
the present Intifada.
Translation of Ma'ariv article at
http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/geffen.htm
Full text of the testimonies about which Geffen writes:
http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/myadmin/files/files/rulesofengagementbooklet.doc
..and don't forget the COs
Israeli media have almost completely lost interest in the refusal
of young Israelis to serve the occupation. Instead, journalists
concentrated on the vocal extreme-right threat to organize
”more than ten thousand soldiers” refusing to take part
in the evacuation of the Gaza Strip settlements – a threat
which in the event evaporated almost without a trace.
But with or without media coverage, principled youngsters continue
to follow the dictates of their conscience. The latest of them,
18-year old Uri Nathan – a member of the Shministim group
– has gotten his call-up order. Wednesday, Sept 28 he has to
show up at the Tel-Hashomer Induction Center. He is going to
announce there his refusal to join an army of occupation and
presumably go immediately to prison. Supporters will follow him up
to the gate.
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