Breaking the Silence: Israeli Army Veterans Tour U.S. & Canada to Speak Out Against Occupation
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Published 2024-04-10
Democracy Now! speaks with two former Israeli soldiers who are members of Breaking the Silence, an anti-occupation group of Israeli army veterans. The group’s education director, Tal Sagi, describes growing up in a settlement and joining the military without understanding what occupation was. “We’ve been told that this is security and we have to control millions of lives and we don’t have other options,” says Sagi, who says Israeli society is not open to ending the occupation. “We’re trying to say that there are other options.” We also speak with Breaking the Silence deputy director Nadav Weiman about why the group is touring U.S. colleges and calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. “We stood in checkpoints. We raided homes. We attacked Gaza from the air. We fought from the ground,” says Weiman. “So, when you bring reality, you bring real conversation about the occupation, and you bring real conversation about Gaza.”
Transcript: www.democracynow.org/2024/4/10/breaking_the_silenc…
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All Comments (21)
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How is it possible that this 18 year old keeps returning to jail because he refuses to serve while Benjamin Nethanyahu’s son is sent to Miami?
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Why doesn't any Israeli ever ask WHY did Oct 7 happen in the first place?????
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Democracy Now! History will never forget the effort you put to show the reality
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God bless the honest people who stand up for truth and justice!
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Breaking the silence is for Humanity
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Aye. VERY important for ex-IDF to speak out. BRAVO!
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Well done to these two for speaking up about the disgraceful goings on in Israeli society.
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Very thankful for these courageous individuals advocating for peace, human rights and an end to the occupation, even when it is against the status quo in their country
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Listening to the sniper telling his tales of the “store windows” operations is making me nauseous. My god who could live like that without revolting before Oct. 7?
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ANTI-OCCUPATION ❤ GROUP OF ISRAELI ARMY VETERANS THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH !
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As Tal Sagi says, when you grow up in an apartheid state and it is all you know, you don't question it. I grew up in South Africa and was a teen in the early 90's before the national elections. I remember the side walks. Whites walked on one side and non-whites on the other. I didn't question it because it was normal. As a child, I couldn't understand why our maid wasn't allowed to come to the beach with us but I didn't question it. When you grow up in the sort of environment and it is normal, you don't see anything wrong with it. It is only in retrospect that you realise the horrors of what happened and how we dehumanised the majority of the South African population.
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We're fortunate to have people of virtue speaking out.
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Let's agree that Israelis need a different education system like what happened in Germany after WW2.
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Don't forget to go to Germany, another country blindly funding this genocide.
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Incredible piece of journalism! Thank you all for telling the truth!
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This guys and this organization(breaking the silence) definitely needs more support rather than be criticized by us.
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It's not called "pressure arrests", it's called terrorism.
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What's also crazy to me, is how indoctrinated Nadav is, even though he's speaking out against what the IDF is doing. He's still believing a lot of the IDF propaganda. He's still blaming hamas, and not seeing Israel's fault in this. The war was not just, an occupier has no right to launch an all out offensive against the people it's occupying.
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Incredible interview. So good to hear people who are willing to stand for what they believe.
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Thank you guys for speaking for JUSTICE...this was truly A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY 😞😞😞🤲🤲🤲❤️🖤🤍💚🇵🇸
