On January 25, 2002 a remarkable group of 52 soldiers and officers of the Israeli army reserves published a quarter-page letter which appeared in the Israeli daily newspaper Ha’aretz. In this letter, they called on their comrades-in-arms to join their act of refusal to serve in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza. In a manifesto published in a book in 2003 entitled “Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” they further declared: “we shall not continue to fight beyond the 1967 borders in order to dominate, expel, starve, and humiliate an entire people.”

Sherif Fam speaks to Oded Na’aman, a 26 year-old former crew commander in the artillery corps of the Israeli Defense Forces, who spent a year as a soldier and commander in checkpoints all over the West Bank, then became a member of “Breaking the Silence.”

This program was produced by This Week In Palestine for WZBC radio on March 3, 2008.

For more information, visit:
truthandjusticeradio.org

Former IDF soldier and founder of Breaking the Silence, Yahuda Shaul, speaks to Joe Broadhurst of CKUT about the occupation of Palestine and the mindset of Israeli soldiers in their control of Palestinians.

This program was produced by CKUT Radio for November 3, 2006.

For more information, visit:
ckut.ca
shovrimshtika.org (Breaking the Silence website)