http://www.smh.com.au/news/0201/28/world/world3.html
Soldiers rebel over Palestinian policy Jerusalem: Fifty-two Israeli combat reserve soldiers have announced they will no longer fight in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, saying military actions there are nothing to do with providing security for Israel and are intended to control and degrade Palestinians. In an advertisement in Israeli newspapers, the soldiers, some with the rank of major, said Israel's stringent travel bans, which confine many Palestinians to their communities, needlessly punished the Palestinians. Israel says the closures are needed to prevent attacks by Palestinian militants. "We declare that we will not continue to fight a war for peace in the [Jewish] settlements [in the West Bank and Gaza Strip]," the advertisement said. "We will not continue to fight on the other side of the Green Line with an intent to control, expel, starve and degrade an entire people." The Green Line refers to the invisible line separating Israel from the territories it captured in the 1967 Middle East war. The soldiers wrote that they decided to stop serving in the Palestinian areas when it became clear to them that army orders "had nothing to do with security, and their only intent is to control the Palestinian people forever".
