(Translated from the Refuseniks’ ad in Ha’aretz July 24, by Gush Shalom]
Those who took part in the liquidationof Salah Shehadeh and 14* other human beings,among them 6 children, and 2 babies(and150 wounded).
Do you know the concept ” manifestly illegal order ” ?
Is the order which you followed one of them?
Is there a limit to what you would be willing to do?
When you were briefed about your mission – didyou to try to check that there wouldn’t be innocentcivilians in the house you were going to bombard?
If you knew there were, didn’t you hesitate, at leastfor a short moment, before you pulled the trigger?
Do you justify the death of children, babies becauseof the sins of their father?
Arent’ you the elite of the soldiers? Aren’t pilotsconsidered the spearpoint of the armed forces aswell as the Israeli society – also for their moralstandards?
Do you remember that there were times that wewould have canceled an action when the susipicionrose that innocents may be hit? – because suchwere the values according to which we were broughtup, and because these were the norms of the armedforces which we joined?
And these were the norms we were proud of.
Nearly unnoticed the State of Israel has turned intoa state which doesn’t scruple using whatever meansin order to achieve its political aims.