Interview with Israel's Refuseniks.(making waves)(Haggai Matar, Adam Maor and Matan Kaminer)(Interview)

From: New Internationalist | Date: July 1, 2005 | Copyright information

Haggai Matar, Adam Maor, Matan Kaminer. These names may not be familiar to the world at large, but in Israel they are part of a well-known group of five young men who banded together to take a stand against the country's compulsory military service. Theirs were not rash decisions based on fear, nor inherent ones based on a strictly religious or pacifist doctrine. Rather, their actions were based on a simple desire to see an end to both human suffering and a military occupation that...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

The Invention and Decline of Israeliness; State, Society, and the Military.(Book Review)
Shofar ; The Invention and Decline of Israeliness; State, Society, and the Military, by Baruch Kimmerling. Berkeley, New York and London: University of California Press, 2001. 268pp. $45.00. Kimmerling's latest analysis of Israeli society is timely and important. Although as this review was being written
Poll: Immigrant Assimilation in Israeli Society Poor.
Israel Faxx ; ... can now be downloaded from http://www.ethnicaudiobooks.com. Listen to them at home with Windows Media Player or while outside using an MP3 player. And don't forget to visit http://www.canaancommunications.us for the latest news about Golan's aliyah.
Study: Israelis resisted intifada's psychological warfare
Jerusalem Post ; ... Post 01-11-2006 Headline: Study: Israelis resisted intifada's psychological warfare Byline: HAVIV RETTIG Edition; Daily Section: News Page: 07 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 -- "If the intifada was supposed to undermine the foundations of Israeli society and to ...
The metro-retro divide
Jerusalem Post ; ... assassination. "My family and I had been at the rally [where Rabin was assassinated], but we had left early and come home. I heard the news on television. As the hours passed, I began to think of texts I had analyzed, theories I knew. Suddenly, I was seeing these things ...
Walled; Israeli society at an impasse.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Reference & Research Book News ; ... denial of history serves to continue to shape Israeli attitudes and actions towards the Palestinians, guaranteeing more conflict and threatening Israeli society with becoming dominated by a cult of force. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)
The media mob
Jerusalem Post ; ... the country, the radio, television, print media and Internet news portals are poised to guarantee that Israeli society will fall ... expulsion plan during evening rush hour Wednesday, the Walla news portal, which is operated by the left-wing Haaretz group, published ...
The Arab Minority in Israel's Economy: Patterns of Ethnic Inequality
Domes ; Magda Kandil Domes 02-28-1995 The Arab Minority in Israel's Economy: Patterns of Ethnic Inequality. Israel is an ethnically divided society in which the Arab population is a subordinate minority. Israeli Arabs are citizens of the state, but Israel has still not developed an ideology that would
Critical Issues in Israeli Society.(Book review)
Shofar ; Critical Issues in Israeli Society, edited by Alan Dowty. Westport: Praeger, 2004. 261 pp. $79.95. The politics and sociology of Israeli society cannot be understood without considering the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but often that particular conflict becomes the primary focus of analysis. Alan
Scrapbook: An Israeli witch-hunt, THE STAR
The Star (Jordan, Middle East) ; 00-00-0000 Pappe is a member of the Peace and Equality Front that includes Arabs and Israelis and is one of the leading neo-historians in Israel that are revising of looking at the way the Israeli state was established. JORDAN (Star) - In his novel The Road to Ein Harod ( written in Hebrew 1983),
The Best of Times?
Jerusalem Post ; Abraham Rabinovich Jerusalem Post 02-06-1998 Trudging through the narrow vale of Now, our eyes scanning the ground for loose coins and tripwires, we do not see far ahead. Oz Almog does. What he has to report about the direction Israeli society is taking as it enters its 50th year might best be