Israeli soldiers are refusing to serve in their country's army on moral grounds
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The petition also talks about the nature of control and influence that the Israeli army has over both Israelis and Palestinians, and how they are qualitatively different: “The Israeli Army,
a fundamental part of Israelis’ lives, is also the power that rules over the Palestinians living in the territories occupied in 1967. As long as it exists in its current structure, its
language and mindset control us: We divide the world into good and evil according to the military’s categories; the military serves as the leading authority on who is valued more and who
less in society — who is more responsible for the occupation, who is allowed to vocalize their resistance to it and who isn’t, and how they are allowed to do it. The military plays a central
role in every action plan and proposal discussed in the national conversation, which explains the absence of any real argument about non-military solutions to the conflicts Israel has been
locked in with its neighbors.”