|
|
|
Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Ronit Chacham
ISBN: 9781590510995
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Other Press LLC
Edition: New edition
Write a review
In a series of moving and provocative conversations, nine members of the Israeli Defense Force tell why they disobeyed their commanders' orders to serve in the West Bank and Gaza. The "refuseniks" describe their risky moral decision against the background of what is perhaps the most volatile conflict in the world today: the Israeli…
In a series of moving and provocative conversations, nine members of the Israeli Defense Force tell why they disobeyed their commanders' orders to serve in the West Bank and Gaza. The testimony of the "refuseniks" in "Breaking Ranks is essential background for a full understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
| ISBN | 1590510992 | | Pages | 176 | | ISBN13 | 9781590510995 (What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Other Press LLC | | Weight (grammes) | 268 | | Imprint | Other Press LLC | | Published in | New York | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Publication date | 28 Feb 2004 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Library of Congress | DS | | Spine width (mm) | 13 | | DEWEY | 355.224095694 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
|
| |
| | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | Introduction: Landmarks in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | | 1 | | Ch. 1 | | Sergeant First Class (Res.) Assaf Oron | | 15 | | Ch. 2 | | Major (Res.) Rami Kaplan | | 35 | | Ch. 3 | | Lieutenant (Res.) Yaniv Iczkovitz | | 51 | | Ch. 4 | | Staff Sergeant (Res.) Tal Belo | | 63 | | Ch. 5 | | Lieutenant (Res.) Guy Grossman | | 77 | | Ch. 6 | | Staff Sergeant (Res.) Shamai Leibowitz | | 87 | | Ch. 7 | | Lieutenant (Res.) Yuval Lotem | | 105 | | Ch. 8 | | Staff Sergeant (Res.) Ishay Rosen-Zvi | | 121 | | Ch. 9 | | Private David Chacham-Herson | | 137 | | | | Maps | | 153 |
"Ronit Chacham's exemplary oral history and commentaries portray in depressing yet hopeful detail those courageous and principled Israelis who have refused to participate as soldiers in Israel's occupied Palestinian lands.... An end to the bitter civil war may not be in sight, but at least we have these remarkable men to prove that war and killing never brings peace and that some are brave enough to say 'No.'"  Be the first to write a customer review
|
|
|
|
|