- The cause of refusal gained an unexpected strenth this
week when Lieutenant-Colonel Yoram Rubinfeld, commander of a reserve
battalion,
announced to the battalion's gathered officers that he would not be
commanding
them on the battlion's entry into the Occupied Territories. Rubinfled
is not a member of any refusers' group, and seems to have taken this step
on his own initiative.
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- Meanwhile, the petition of university lecturers
expressing
support for student refusniks is gathering momentum, despite - or perhaps
becuase - of last week's vicious extreme right demonstration which called
for expulsion of these lecturers, and also despite Education Minister
Limor Livnat's call to have them prosecuted. So far, nearly two hundred
faculty members of Israeli universities signed, and the signatures of
more of them can be sent to Anat Biletzki anatbi@post.tau.ac.il. (This
is just for faculty members. Sorry.)
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- On Tuesday night, the statement will go up on the Seruv
website (where you can now see two preliminary statements http://www.seruv.org.il/
).
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