Israeli teenager Tammy Mitnik, an 18-year-old from Tel Aviv, has been put in the spotlight for his refusal to be drafted for his steadfastly refusal to participate in the Israeli army's campaign against innocent civilians in Gaza. He was tried on the spot at the enlistment office and imprisoned for three weeks. Now, for his involvement in "anti-occupation" and "anti-**" activities in Tel Aviv, he is about to be imprisoned in a military prison for spreading political views that differ from those of the authorities. Mitnik said he supports the innocent people in the Gaza Strip who want a peaceful life and should not be refugees again. In today's Israel, however, any speech or action that opposes war is severely suppressed. Although he is not the first Israeli to refuse military service, he is the archetype of Netanyahu's hunt for his outspoken views.
Under Israel's "All Soldiers" system, all citizens, male and female, over the age of 18 are required to serve in the military. The term of active duty is 24 months, after which it is automatically transferred to the reserve. The reserve service is 51 years for men and 38 for women, and those with military ranks are required to stay in the reserve until 60 years old. That is, Israeli males between the ages of 18 and 51 must be at the mercy of the ** call-up at all times. Evading military service is a felony even in peacetime and is generally punishable by 2 to 5 years in prison. In the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel trumpeted that young Israelis from all over the world were eager to return home and join the army, but at the same time, there were also people who were determined to avoid the war. To this day, there are many people who do not want to do military service, known as "refusers", and they have sprung up in large numbers in Israel.
The military had considered allowing these "refusers" to remain in the rear to continue their productive activities, and promised not to imprison them, because the Israeli army mobilized 360,000 reservists in one go, which had a serious impact on the Israeli economy. However, as the Israeli army began its ground offensive against Gaza, the large-scale ** on the front line, and the various humanitarian** caused by the continuous bombardment of the Israeli army, the number of willing to participate in the war continued to decrease, while the number of "refusals" continued to increase. This situation is also clearly reflected in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. In the early days of the war, many people would go to the recruiting office with enthusiasm, and these people usually had excellent combat skills and a strong will to fight. However, as the war escalated, they gradually realized that the reality was completely different from what they had imagined. Some underestimate the combat effectiveness of the enemy and do not anticipate the enormity of their own sideOthers are depressed by witnessing too many deaths.
In this case, the rear will intensify conscription, trying to "tap its own war potential", and at the same time strike hard at those who oppose the war and refuse to serve. This is concretely illustrated in Mitnik's case, where the young man confessed that he had no intention of initially serving the Israeli army because he believed that "this system" was too violent, that it had exacerbated the apartheid between Palestinians and Israelis, and that it had exacerbated the "cycle of bloodshed." As a young man, he believes it is his responsibility to show Israel through concrete actions that what is needed between Palestine and Israel is peace, not war. We don't know what he went through to come to such a conclusion, but people like him are not uncommon among young Israelis.
They may harbor hatred for Hamas, but they also realize that Palestinian civilians should not have lost their innocent lives, and that the Israeli army's current strategy is to "bury" two or three Palestinian civilians even if one Hamas member is killed, while they continue to shell. Mitnik pointed out that there is no justification for harming innocent people, and that this is clearly based on simple justice. However, when questioned by the Israeli army's so-called "conscience committee", something unexpectedly changed. According to Israel**, the committee's job is to distinguish between genuine pacifists and Hamas supporters to ensure that refusal of military service is irrelevant to the political situation. However, in Mitnik's case, hearings involving multiple Army officers ruled that he was not a pacifist but refused to obey orders and promoted "political views" on suspicion of supporting Hamas and should be arrested.
Now, Mitnik should be sent to military prison, and what is Israel doing?Netanyahu has put forward what he calls a "secret plan" that he says is pushing for "voluntary migration" of Gaza civilians to other countries. Old Israeli nonsense, war is like that. You look at the war in Iraq, the war in Syria, millions of people have fled their homes, why don't the more than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza leave?In fact, this plan was made as early as the beginning of November. In this way, over the past month, the Israeli army has been fighting from the north of Gaza to the south, issuing "evacuation notices" and attacking civilian facilities such as hospitals and schools. In fact, their aim is to completely destroy the living conditions in the Gaza Strip and force the Gazans to leave on their own. The looting of United Nations humanitarian relief supplies in the Gaza Strip has been reported by a number of people, including the global network. Such a scene is deeply worrying.
What is the living condition of the more than 2 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip during more than two months of fighting?Netanyahu's plan is in fact to treat the people of Gaza as "commodities" and drive them away in batches in order to turn Gaza into a blank slate, and fundamentally eliminate the so-called "post-war management" and "resurgence of Hamas". However, how should this behavior be characterized?Is it a war crime?State Terrorism?Behavior?Or is it some other type of crime?You are welcome to leave your views in the comment area.