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May All Prosper In Our Uniqueness and in Our Oneness

What if young Israelis took Samson ransom and cut his hair?

What if an all-way-win solution was in the air?

What if the Jews and Arabs

The Christian Coptics

All Learned To live Beyond Current Optics

A State of Being

Before it is a State

Is Ra El

Let it be a Palace

Fit for G-d to dine

In the image imagined by Einstein

Where learning is exchanged

Equality for Jews and Arabs the same

And everything is fine

In Israel-Palestine

Can you Hyphenate

Instead of Blow yourselves up

In Hate?

And in Ukraine

Where there has been so much Pain

Can Nato and Russia

Quit fighting over Ukraine

Where Ukraine isn’t either way

Truly free or even raised up right

But just a pawn in the Co-Parental

Fight

Like a child in an evil Divorce?

Can we grow up, East and West

Have a Burger

Have some Borscht

Untie the knot peacefully

And stop using the Child in your Games

Work together to nurture the child’s good qualities

And help them outgrow the bad

No more labs

And Neo Nazi Azov

Being justified

As Fab

No more power for people who call themselves Jidobandera

No More Fabian Eugenics

On the Left

Or open genocide on the right

No more regime change

In South America

Causing Migrant’s plight

No invisible wall or biodigital ID

Just solve the root issues

And end the criminality

And inhumanity

And we can all live happily

Peacefully

Freely

As One Humanity

While honoring local diversity

Local decision-making

Local culture

And stakes-taking

Waking

Us into Our Sovereign Divinity

It’s beyond transnational

Supranational

Digitocracy

It lives by love

And not by Hypnocracy

“ Israeli army refusers: ‘We will not participate in genocide’

Conscientious objectors Yuval Moav, Itamar Greenberg, and Oryan Mueller explain why they are willing to go to jail in order to stand against the war.

By Oren ZivAugust 7, 2024

Conscientious objectors Yuval Moav, Itamar Greenberg, and Oryan Mueller. (Oren Ziv)

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This week, three 18-year-old conscientious objectors reported to the Israeli army’s Tel Hashomer recruitment center, near Tel Aviv, and declared their refusal to enlist in mandatory military service in protest of the occupation and the current war on Gaza. Yuval Moav, Oryan Mueller, and Itamar Greenberg were each tried and sentenced to an initial 30 days in military prison, which is likely to be extended. The only other refuseniks to have publicly opposed the draft for political reasons since October 7 —  Tal Mitnick, Ben Arad, and Sophia Orr — were recently released after serving prison sentences totaling 185 days, 95 days, and 85 days respectively. 

The three latest refuseniks — who are being accompanied through the refusal process by the conscientious objector network Mesarvot — each released statements prior to appearing in military court. Greenberg, who grew up in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, said he originally saw enlisting as a way to become more integrated into Israeli society, before coming to realize that “the door into Israeli society goes through the oppression and killing of another people.” He added: “A just society cannot be built on gun barrels.”