Free the Shministim – Israel’s Young Conscientious Objectors
August 11, 2010
From Jewish Voice for Peace, December18th.org
Immediate, please sign and send HERE
The Shministim are Israeli high school students who have been imprisoned for refusing to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinian Territories. December 18, 2008 marked the launch date of a global campaign to release them from jail.
SHMINISIM 2010: A new Shministim letter has been drafted for 2010, and 88 Israeli young people have signed it. The letter, addressed to Prime Minister Netanyahu, slams the Occupation and asks, “Can military rule of a civilian population be considered anything other than a dictatorship?” To learn about this new class of conscientious refusers, go HERE
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Good for them. There shouldn’t be a war to begin with anyway. But when you have that kind of mentality this is what we get. This is dead wrong for forcing high school students to fight against their beliefs. What is really going on there other than a war thing. Why are they really holding them hostage. what about getting an education and freedom. Is it another war over there for the students too. What a dirty war it is .
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There is hope for the world yet with young people like this! Hooray!
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