Israel Defense Forces

The IDF is having some recruitment problems. Last year 27% of young Israelis avoided "mandatory service". It's not voiced by the Israeli government, but a large reason for this avoidance of service is because Israel has a new generation of people that are refusing to serve in a military that uses inhumane and illegal (according the Geneva Conventions) methods of oppresion of the Palestinian people, masked in "self-defense". This new generation knows that oppression and wall building will not lead to shalom. Even soldiers who currently serve in the IDF are refusing to serve in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza for the same reasons.

What kind of atrocities are happening that are so great that Israel's own soldiers are refusing to participate? In America, we don't hear about anything beyond the day to day violence that tends to break out between the two sides. We occasionally see the American assisted Israeli war machine bomb a few Palestinian buildings, but what's the big deal?

The fact is that Americans, blinded by a biased media and pushed by an evangelical force with poor eschatology, are ignorant of the truth going on in the holy land.

Another World Is Possible Israel and Palestine is a documentary that sheds some truthful light on the situation, with a specific look at the atrocity that occured in Janin in the summer of 2002 that went overlooked by the international community. (It largely went overlooked because UN and Red Cross observers were barred from the area (which happened to be at the same time that we were threatening war on Iraq because of their refusal of UN inspectors)). To watch that documentary, you'll need to create a free acount. The video is about 25 minutes. If you want to be informed, I encourage you to watch it.