[fwd] We are not alone, or am I wrong? - Letter of Shmimri (1of the 5)

[Gush Shalom (Israeli Peace Bloc)]

" I know that there are many more people who think the Occupation is 
terrible, who think that what people like us, refusing to be occupiers, 
deserve is not three more years in prison. Am I wrong?"

Answer Shimri by being there tomorrow morning, 8.30! 
(and/ot by telling your friends)

Tuesday - from 8.30 Vigil in front of court - during the last day of the 
defence of the five "occupation objectors" before their verdict.

Wednesday - at 2.00 - the verdict in the case of pacifist CO Yoni Ben-
Artzi at the Jaffa military court.

------- Forwarded message follows -------
Date sent:      	Sun, 09 Nov 2003 23:15:28 +0200
From:           	Sergeiy Sandler <sergeiy at netvision.net.il>
Subject:        	Fw: A reminder, with a letter from Shimri Tzameret


A letter from Shimri Tzameret:

This Tuesday, November the 11th, the last hearing in the trial of myself
(Shimri Tzameret) and my four friends - Noam Bahat, Adam Maor, 
Haggai
Matar and Matan Kaminer. We all have been sitting in prison and in
detention for a year because we refuse to enlist in the army out of a
conscientious objection to taking part in the Occupation. If convicted, 
we
might be imprisoned for three additional years.

One of the main hardships of refusing is that of departing from the
consensus. Many people would make us feel that our refusal is
illegitimate, that what we are doing harms society and does not benefit
it. If they are right, and we are just five feeble-minded people
performing an extreme and cheeky act that nobody supports, than it is
quite possible that the Occupation will just go on.

I don't think this is the case. I know that there is no chance that the
Occupation will simply go on. I know that there are many more people who
think the Occupation is terrible, who think that what people like us,
refusing to be occupiers, deserve is not three more years in prison. Am I
wrong?

Shimri Tzameret.

The summing hearing in the trial of Shimri and his friends will take place
in the military courtroom in Jaffa, at the junction of Shivtei Israel and
Yeffet Street. At 8:30 am we shall hold a demonstration in support of
the objectors. All are invited.

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