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Police Investigation Against Yesh Gvul
(Press Release - 26/6/09)
Three members of the Yesh
Gvul forum - Micha Rachman, Mordechai Zeldon and Peretz
Kidron - have been summoned to interrogation by the
Israeli police. The alleged grounds for the
investigation is the suspicion that the group and its
members engage in "incitement to evade military
service", do so consistently and "promise financial
incentives" to that end.
The charges are blatantly
absurd - no YG activity or publication has ever
"incited" against service with the army. The group
campaigns against the occupation and against abuses
committed by the army in enforcing the occupation, and
soldiers who refuse to take part in illegal actions gain
moral and political support from YG, but we have raised
any objection or opposition to military service as such.
Accordingly, we can only
deduce that the police action constitutes political
harassment, designed to overcome growing public unease
over the role of the army and the systematic abuses it
commits in enforcing the occupation regime.
We hope the police and their
political bosses will lose no time in dropping a
ludicrous investigation which has no factual basis. But
should they persist, we hope our friends and
well-wishers join us in protesting this illegitimate use
of resources by a police force which consistently fails
to take action against right-wing extremists, racists
and settler violence.
We will keep you informed of
developments.
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