Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 03.09.2025
Today, in a previous article of mine, I wrote that the Zionist army is in the process of disintegrating, and here it is, a few hours later, the mass refusal to serve in this army. It demonstrates how rapidly the historical process is advancing. The end of Israel is near.
Today, a large group of reservists has called to refuse to serve in the army, which they believe serves the personal interests of Netanyahu and his government. In a press conference at the Zionist House of America, they said they would refuse to report for service if they were ordered to occupy Gaza City. “The conference was convened following the decision of the political-security cabinet to reoccupy Gaza City. Major Feine who served 270 days of reserve duty in the war, opened the meeting with a firm statement: “Standing with me are many hundreds of reservists, who served tens of thousands of days of reserve duty in the war. The decision to embark on an operation to occupy Gaza is finally clearly illegal. aim”
According to him, “The decision to occupy Gaza will put the abductees, soldiers, and civilians at risk. It is provided by a messianic government that has no public legitimacy and whose only concern is its political survival.” The soldiers announced, “We declare that if we are called up for reserve duty, we will not report for duty. We will not respond to the order eight that will be sent.”
Feiner added: “The government’s intention to permanently occupy Gaza constitutes a manifestly illegal order with a black flag flying over it. There is no operational or security justification for this move – it is a political, cynical and dangerous step, intended to serve an extremist minority and not the security of the citizens of Israel.” The families of the abductees are begging not to endanger their relatives who are still there in another military operation. For the soldiers, too, it’s a death trap.”
Feiner also warned of the humanitarian consequences: “The military operation not only endangers the abductees and the soldiers, but will also lead to the killing of civilians and further deterioration of the humanitarian situation of the population in the Gaza Strip. Already today, the residents of the Gaza Strip are facing a critical shortage of food, water, and health services – the occupation of Gaza will make the situation worse, and the responsibility will lie with the government and its cabinet, which has no public mandate to lead the process they are leading. The Cabinet’s decisions are made against the opinion of the majority of the people, who are interested in ending the war and returning the hostages in the deal.”
Feiner added: “This extremist government is the one that brought the destruction of October 7 upon us, and after two years of war, we can no longer trust it to be the one who will bring about the end of the war, certainly not when the open statements of its ministers speak of the exile of the Palestinian population and Jewish settlement inside Gaza. We will not stand up for these messianic ideas. We say enough!” Captain Feiner addressed public leaders directly: “I would like to take advantage of this platform to call on public leaders everywhere, politicians, intellectuals and cultural figures, media personalities and more: the responsibility for stopping the killing and abandonment lies with you as well. Join us in rejecting the manifestly illegal order. Raise your voice against the operation to conquer Gaza City and call on your public not to serve the messianic vision of the Netanyahu Smotrich government.”[i]
We, as working-class revolutionaries, support this call to refuse to serve the army that commits such war crimes under the order of Netanyahu’s government of war criminals.
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[i] https://www.maariv.co.il/news/israel/article-1229374