Israeli youth brave military prisons refusing to be drafted

Scores of young men and women within Israel, most of them high school students aged 17 to 19 years, have pledged not to become cannon fodder for the military machine of the Zionist state. The fascist Israeli state has jailed many of them and even kept some of them in solitary confinement.  The declaration of one of the girls is typical “I refuse to enlist in the Israeli military on conscientious grounds. I am not willing to become part of an occupying army that has been an invader of foreign lands for decades, which perpetuates a racist regime of robbery in these lands, tyrannises civilians and makes life difficult for millions under a false pretext of security”. Says another, whose father was in fact the deputy chief of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service and who is still considered one of the most powerful men in the Israeli security system – “I believe in service to the society I am part of, and that is precisely why I refuse to take part in the war crimes committed by my country” This shows how the racist and fascist policies of the Zionist Israeli state are abhorred by increasing numbers of Israeli people.