SAVE THE DATE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2013 Potluck: 5:30 (contact: Huda Giddens 206-527-1291 for info) Meeting: 7:00pm St. Mark’s Cathedral……Skinner Hall Sponsored by: Friends of Breaking the Silence, Mideast Focus Ministryy, The Bishop’s Committee on Palestine, The Church Council of Greater Seattle—Palestine Task Force (partial list) YEHUDA SHAUL—founder of Breaking the Silence will introduce BTS’s new book Our Harsh Logic as part of a national tour of the United States: Israeli soldiers, the young men and women in the army, know the truth of the occupation better than anyone—they are the people who carry it out. Now, in a monumental book of collective testimony, OUR HARSH LOGIC: Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010 the soldiers speak out and demand to be heard. The Israel Defense Force (IDF) is still held by many to be “the most moral army in the world,” and its actions in the Occupied Territories are—it claims—first and foremost aimed at protecting the country from terror. But the soldiers themselves tell a different story. Talking frankly about what they did, what they were told to do, and what they saw, these young Israelis draw a broad and powerful portrait of an ostensibly defensive military program that in fact serves an offensive agenda. As the soldiers show in vivid and immediate detail, even the key terms of IDF policy—“preventing terror,” “separating populations,” “preserving normal Palestinian life,” and “law enforcement”— in fact mean precisely the opposite on the ground, spreading fear and subjugation, accelerating Jewish settlement and the acquisition of Palestinian land, crippling all political and social life, and ultimately thwarting any possibility of independence. ( from a review of the book) YEHUDA SHAUL was born and raised in Jerusalem in an ultra-Orthodox family. After graduating from a yeshiva high school in a Jewish settlement on the West Bank, Yehuda served in the IDF achieving the rank of commander and platoon sergeant and was posted in the Palestinian towns of Bethlehem, Hebron and Ramallah on the West Bank. In 2004, Yehuda founded Breaking the Silence with a group of fellow veterans; he serves as the organization’s Co-Director and Foreign Relations Officer. BREAKING THE SILENCE was established in Jerusalem in 2004 by Israel Defense Forces veterans who have served in the beginning of the Second Intifada and have taken it on themselves to expose the public to the horrors andrealities of everyday life for Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 05:52:21 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015