Refusenik!: Israel's Soldiers of Conscience

Israeli soldiers opposed to the horrendous Nazi-style, Zionist occupation of the Gaza ghetto and the West Bank speak out in this moving testimony to the power of conscience over surrender to military orders. One of these objectors writes, "I am a soldier in the Israeli army, imprisoned for refusal to take part in repression, arising from a sense that it is out of the question to be a Jew, the son of a people of refugees and yet repress a people of refugees." The book's editor and compiler, Peretz Kidron, is himself a "refusenik." This book is powerful, first-hand documentary testimony of what the US media will not report in any depth: that Israeli war crimes against Palestinian civilians are so widespread and systematic that some Israeli troops--cognizant of the mandate of Nuremberg-- have refused to take part in them. [The reviewer is the co-author of "The Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians]