[CPT-UK] Group of ex-Israeli soldiers who work with CPT to speak on 'Breaking the Silence'

[Tim Nafziger]

Dear friends,

This is a group of former Israeli soldiers who will be speaking at Friends
House on 25 May. CPT UK is sort of sponsoring the event, but not officially:

Please distribute this further as soon as possible. This event is organised
at short notice.

Quaker Peace and Social Witness
(Middle East programme)
hosts

Yehuda Shaul
who will speak about
Breaking the Silence

a group of former Israeli soldiers who have served in the Occupied
Territories and have decided to speak out about the reality of the
occupation as they have experienced it.

Thursday, 25 May 2006
6.30 pm
Friends House,
room 1, first floor
173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ

All welcome


Breaking the Silence:
"Since our discharge from the army, we all feel that we have become
different. We feel that service in the occupied territories and the
incidents we faced have distorted and harmed the moral values on which we
grew up.

We all agree that as long as Israeli society keeps sending its best people
to military combat service in the occupied territories, it is extremely
important that all of us, Israeli citizens, know the price which the
generation who is fighting in the territories is paying, the impossible
situations it is facing, the insanity it is confronting everyday, and the
heavy burden it bears after being discharged from the IDF - a heavy burden
that hasn't left us.

That's why we decided to break the silence, because it's time to tell."

<http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il>
<http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=440348>

Quaker Peace and Social Witness works with, and on behalf of, Friends in
Britain to translate faith into action. QPSW is the implementing partner of
the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) for
Britain and Ireland.

Floresca Karanasou
Middle East programme manager
Quaker Peace and Social Witness
Friends House
173 Euston Road
London
NW1 2BJ
Tel # +44 (0)20 7663 1073
Fax # +44 (0)20 7663 1049
E-mail: florescak at quaker.org.uk
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