Ben Arad joined the “Ryboznik” group that refused to serve the call to compulsory conscription in the Israeli army (social networking sites)

A young Israeli man named Ben Arad decided to go to prison instead of performing compulsory military service in the army, in protest against what is happening in the Gaza Strip.

Arad appeared in a video clip on the “X” platform (formerly Twitter) the day before yesterday, Monday (April 1), before he was brought before a military judge and sentenced to 20 days in prison, saying: “I was very affected by the flour massacre in Gaza. Seeing people in pain.” Trampling each other to get food is something that makes denying the existence of famine difficult for anyone to do.”

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The young man revealed that he joined those who refuse to perform military service in the Israeli army, which adopts a compulsory conscription system, and who are called "Rebozniks."

On March 23, Ben Arad participated in an anti-government demonstration in Tel Aviv, according to video clips circulating on the “X” platform.

Al-Shabab explained his rejection of conscription by saying that he “opposes participating in a war that will lead the entire Middle East into a regional war. The unprecedented killing of uninvolved people in Gaza, hunger, diseases, destruction of land and property, and crimes of settlers in the territories, all add fuel to the fire of hatred and terrorism among Palestinians.” Hamas and its supporters...the fighting will not bring back the kidnapped. It will not revive the dead. It will not liberate the people of Gaza from Hamas’s control, and this will not achieve peace,” he said.

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He added that Israel "is waging an unprecedented killing campaign against the entire Palestinian people, not just Hamas."

The 18-year-old said in a television interview: “I did not feel that I was a suitable person to perform military service even before the war, and I did not participate in many demonstrations nor was I a social activist, but since the beginning of the war I felt the duty to start acting, and that I owed it to myself and to the world.” ".

He added: "I was raised to think critically and question everything. I took a somewhat different path than the average Israeli leftist."

He continued: "I think about global matters such as capitalism and colonialism. Since my childhood I have been disturbed by issues of global warming and the environment. This line of thinking led me to an anti-capitalist ideology, and from here I came to anti-colonialism and from there to struggle against the occupation and the Israeli-Palestinian issue."

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Ben Arad is the third young man to announce his refusal to serve in the army since the beginning of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Before him, both Tal Mitnick - who has so far spent 105 days in prison - and Sophia Orr, who has spent 40 days in prison so far - refused to join the military service. .

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Tal Mitnick (18 years old) announced in December 2023 that despite the frightening situation and the attack on the peace movement and the demonstrators, “this is the right time to show the other side, and show that we exist.”

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He said in press statements before entering prison: “My refusal is an attempt to influence Israeli society, and its goal is to avoid participating in the occupation and the massacre that is taking place in Gaza. I do not agree to people being killed in my name. I express my solidarity with the innocent people in Gaza. I know that they want to "They live, and they do not deserve to be refugees for the second time in their lives."

In his rejection letter, Mitnick said: "There is no military solution to a political problem. I refuse to enlist in an army that believes the real problem can be ignored, under a government that only continues bereavement and pain."

He added: “Change does not come from corrupt politicians. The violence that the army uses and has used over the years does not protect us. The circle of blood is actually the circle of violence of the army, which, like any army, produces more blood, and in practice it is no more than the occupation maintenance army and the settlement factory, and in the moment of truth He abandons the people of the South and the entire country.”

As for Sophia Orr (18 years old), she announced last February that she refused to join the army and go to military prison.

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The girl said in press statements: “I refuse to participate in the policy of oppression, violence and apartheid that Israel imposed on the Palestinian people, especially now in the war.”

She added: "I am struggling to deliver the message that there is no military solution to a political problem, and this is clear today more than ever. I want to be part of the solution, not the problem."

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“The older you grow, the more you learn,” Sofia explains, “and October 7 didn’t change anything. We should have expected that because when you do extreme violence against people, it comes back to you and it’s inevitable.”

She added: "The war has confirmed to me that I made the right decision. Since the beginning of the war, the terrible violence and destruction suffered by the people of Gaza has made us more certain than before. I must resist this cycle of blood, otherwise the process will never end."

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Sophia rejected ways to evade service in the army, such as medical exemption and others, saying: “I chose to be one of the few people whose decision is based on political motives and to work to spread the opposition publicly and inform the largest possible number of people.”

Source: Al Jazeera + Israeli press + social networking sites