WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, cnt-ait: Israel: Second prison sentence for conscientious objector Tal Mitnick - Call for solidarity (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On Tuesday January 23, 2024, Tal Mitnick, an 18-year-old Israeli
conscientious objector, was sentenced for the second time to 30 days in
prison. The Israeli army had already imposed a first detention period of
30 days in December. ---- On December 26, Tal Mitnick publicly declared
his conscientious objection to the Tal Hashomer recruiting center. He
was later arrested and sentenced to 30 days in military prison. He is
the first Israeli conscientious objector to be imprisoned for his
refusal since the start of the Israeli-Palestinian war.
In his statement, Tal Mitnick said:
"There is no military solution to a political problem. This is why I
refuse to join an army that believes the real problem can be ignored. On
October 7, Israeli society experienced an unprecedented trauma in the
country's history. In a horrific invasion, the Hamas terrorist
organization murdered hundreds of innocent civilians and kidnapped
hundreds more, families were murdered in their homes, young people were
massacred at a rave and 240 people were kidnapped in the Gaza Strip.
After the terrorist attack, a campaign of revenge began not only against
Hamas, but against the entire Palestinian people. Indiscriminate bombing
of neighborhoods and refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, full military and
political support for settler violence in the West Bank, and political
persecution on an unprecedented scale in Israel. I refuse to believe
that more violence will bring security. I refuse to participate in a
vendetta. I do not want to participate in the perpetuation of oppression
and the cycle of bloodshed, but rather work directly towards a solution,
and that is why I refuse to join the military. I love this country and
its people because it is my home. I sacrifice myself and I work so that
this country is a country that respects others, a country where we can
live with dignity.»

Here's how you can support Tal Mitnick:

Send a protest email to the Israeli Minister of Defense using this
letter template from WRI (War Resisters International):
https://wri-irg.org/en/programmes/rrtk/co-
support-email/2024/release-conscientious-objector-tal-mitnick

Write to Israeli embassies abroad. You can find a list of embassies
here: https://wri-irg.org/en/civicrm/mailing/url?u=357&qid=23322

Use this IRG letter template to write an email to the Military Liaison
Officer (Kapatz@digital.idf.il) and the Attorney General at (pazar@idf.il).

Tal Mitnick is supported by Mesarvot, a political network of Israeli
conscientious objectors. You can send your expressions of solidarity to
Tal by writing to info.mesarvot@gmail.com.

In war there is no winner

War has no winners

(Poster stuck on the walls of Jerusalem,
December 2023)
On the same topic:

Refuznicks, the courage to refuse

http://cnt-ait.info/2003/09/16/refuznicks/

"Palestine - Israel: Outside the fence - interview with three members of
Anarchists Against the Wall.

http://cnt-ait.info/2006/08/29/interview-aatw/

http://cnt-ait.info/2024/02/16/tal-mitnick/
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