Guerrillas of the Week
Editor's Pick, May 6, 2002This week’s guerrillas are warriors who refuse to fight. They are some of Israel’s top young military men, yet they have refused to serve in the Occupied Territories. They are called Refuseniks. There are 450 of them, and they have become a lightening rod of controversy in Israel.
In a nation in which almost everyone serves in the military at some point in their life, the Refuseniks are going against one of the most sacred traditions in Israeli society. The emergence of an organized group of bright, young soldiers who are refusing to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has rocked that nation to its core.
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