View from Ramallah / Israeli refuseniks confront the IDF, from Ni'lin to Tel Aviv - Haaretz

View from Ramallah / Israeli refuseniks confront the IDF, from Ni'lin to Tel Aviv I had just returned to Tel Aviv from a demonstration in the West Bank village of Ni'lin last July, when I caught word that the Israeli military had shot 11-year old Ahmad Musa in the head during a protest against the separation wall. Twenty minutes later, three Israeli anarchists and I were speeding back to the West

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Defense Ministry statistics show that 25 percent of Israeli's avoided military service in 2007. While 11 percent of those were exempt for religious reasons, the majority falls into what is commonly referred to as "grey refusal."