Well, about israeli imperialism, this was ignored when I posted the link a few days ago, so you might want to know it:
More than 200 soldiers and officers of the IDF seem to agree with the Imperialism label. In fact their wording is much harsher:
http://www.seruv.org.il/defaultEng.asp We, reserve combat officers and soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces, who were raised upon the principles of Zionism, sacrifice and giving to the people of Israel and to the State of Israel, who have always served in the front lines, and who were the first to carry out any mission, light or heavy, in order to protect the State of Israel and strengthen it.
We, combat officers and soldiers who have served the State of Israel for long weeks every year, in spite of the dear cost to our personal lives, have been on reserve duty all over the Occupied Territories, and were issued commands and directives that had nothing to do with the security of our country, and that had the sole purpose of perpetuating our control over the Palestinian people. We, whose eyes have seen the bloody toll this Occupation exacts from both sides.
We, who sensed how the commands issued to us in the Territories, destroy all the values we had absorbed while growing up in this country.
We, who understand now that the price of Occupation is the loss of IDFs human character and the corruption of the entire Israeli society.
We, who know that the Territories are not Israel, and that all settlements are bound to be evacuated in the end.
We hereby declare that we shall not continue to fight this War of the Settlements.
We shall not continue to fight beyond the 1967 borders in order to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate an entire people.
We hereby declare that we shall continue serving in the Israel Defense Forces in any mission that serves Israels defense.
The missions of occupation and oppression do not serve this purpose and we shall take no part in them.
Wow, that seems "leftist antisemitic propaganda" but man, it comes from where it comes... First hand account from frontline IDF personnel.
I grew admiring the struggle of the Haganah and the Kibbutzim, but I had to accept later that what they built turned into a paranoic military state with a democratic facade, a mockery of the values upon it was built and even further, a mockery of the memory of the Holocaust.
Nothing should further grant the state of Israel the ability to be judged on different standards on military aggression and unlawful occupation of lands.
The stand of these soldiers is the first positive thing I hear from there in a very long time, but I'm pessimist, as the most probable ending of this story will be their dismissal as traitors or even worse things.
