Born and raised in the American Jewish community, we joined the IDF to defend Israel and its borders. What we did in the occupied territories was a far cry from that. The Lone Soldiers’ Letter demands of our communities to take responsibility for their seemingly unconditional support for Israel despite 52 years of occupation. It’s time to break the silence.
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— Breaking the Silence (@BtSIsrael) January 24, 2020
5/Was this what we patrolled the alleyways of Hebron and entered the houses of families in the middle of the night for? So that after 52 years our Govt would jump on the opportunity to remodel ourselves on a horrific, racist regime from the last century?
How low can they stoop?— Breaking the Silence (@BtSIsrael) January 24, 2020
4/ And that’s something that every decent person must oppose.
— Breaking the Silence (@BtSIsrael) January 24, 2020
3/The State of Israel will be one in which one person is eligible from birth to full civil liberties while another person, from birth to death, is subject to the tyranny of being ruled over with none of those rights. That state of affairs has a name. It’s called apartheid.
— Breaking the Silence (@BtSIsrael) January 24, 2020
2/And make no mistake: that is exactly what’s on the table when we talk about annexation.
Israel justifies the occupation by reasoning that it’s only 'temporary', even after 52 years. But annexing the oPT without giving rights to Palestinians means that even that argument falls.— Breaking the Silence (@BtSIsrael) January 24, 2020
1/We're not sure what's in Trump's 'peace plan', but we know peace is the last thing that will come of it.
Trump will probably recognize the annexation of parts of the WB. Annexationists are celebrating.They know there's no substitute for int'l support when it comes to apartheid. pic.twitter.com/OYcm4Osxbx— Breaking the Silence (@BtSIsrael) January 24, 2020
Yossi Alpher responds to criticism of Israeli whistleblowers @BtSIsrael and US Jewish organizations like APN that give them a public forum:
"Is it too much to ask that Jews in the Diaspora support Jewish moral values in Israel?" https://t.co/zRztRVpDcc
— AmericansforPeaceNow (@PeaceNowUS) January 16, 2020
Navigating the permit bureaucracy of the Israeli occupation:
Here is the process a Palestinian farmer undergoes to get the permit necessary to access their land on the other side of the separation fence pic.twitter.com/X9gs7Kh1Lz— ג'סיקה מונטל – جسيكا مونتل (@JessicaMontell) January 16, 2020
4/And here's a soldier's testimony, to us, about the same incident in 2014: https://t.co/BNnt0iJB0e
Some things never change.
— Breaking the Silence (@BtSIsrael) January 16, 2020