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Your comments and letters show how thankful we all are that these 5 COs speak for us through their refusal. They are sitting in jail in the name of all of us who have signed the petition, and in the name of hundreds of Israeli youth who are growingly aware that they are being sent to kill and die in an unjust occupation. By victimizing the five, the government and the IDF have made clear that they intend to deter new draftees from acting in accordance with their conscience.
They sit in jail - at present in cold, unheated cells exposed to constant petty harassment. Our aim, however, is to release them and, by doing so, remove the fear of jail from all Israeli conscripts. We cannot let them fade away behind the bars.
THEY cannot give more than they have, WE can do more and WE must.
These are the things we CAN do:
(1) Write a letter to your nearest Israeli Embassy
addresses http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH010m0
and to your your Member of Knesset, Parliament, Senate or other representative.
see sample letters http://www.refuz.org.il/Documentation/sample%20letter1.doc
(2) Download & Print our A4-size black and white Posters http://www.refuz.org.il/Documentation/posters.doc - and get them displayed anyhere you imagination suggests - your working place, cafe, internet site, staircase of your block, backwindow of your car, local newspaper. We rely on grass-roots techniques - that means you.
(3) Use our "tell a friend email function" yet again - to remind all those of your friends whose names you did not find on the petition.
(4) The Parents Forum needs money to function - for legal support, communications & etc - if you can give or know someone who can go to donations (http://www.refuz.org.il/donations.html).
Keep in touch - see our latest News and Analysis (http://www.refuz.org.il/News.html).
Refusers' Parents Forum
page last updated 21 February, 2004