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Occupiers in another land, but hated all the same
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Contributor | Penguin |
Last Edited | Penguin Dec 28, 2005 10:50pm |
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Category | Editorial |
Media | Newspaper - Seattle Times |
News Date | Thursday, December 29, 2005 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | The travails of American occupiers of Arab Iraq may not be so different from those of the Israeli occupiers of Arab Palestine. That is what I thought while hearing the stories of Avichay Sharon and Noam Chayut.
Sharon, 24, and Chayut, 26, had been in the Israeli army. They were here recently to criticize what their army does, touring under the auspices of a group called Breaking the Silence. Of course they "had an agenda." Keep that in mind — but hear their story.
"It is very difficult to do this," said Sharon. "We love our country. We grew up in patriotic Zionist homes, thinking we would serve in the most moral army in the world." But the civilian notion of morality is difficult to apply to the job of a military occupier. |
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