"From around 16, you're doing well in school and you're going into programs because you're trying to get into the best position you can get to in the army. Some people put in a lot of work, some people don't. And when you're 18, you get the official draft letter: 'Come on this-and-this date for this-and-this job.' ... And that's when I will probably be going to jail."
"In publicly refusing military service, Behar Tsalik joins hundreds of reservists who have similarly said they would not be complicit in the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip. Together, they hope that they will be able to reprise the role that 'refusers,' as they are known in Israel, have played in the past and help bring the current carnage to an end."
"The refuser movement in Israel is a patchwork of individuals, networks and more formal groups, some organized around specific military units and conflicts, others centering their broader political perspective, typically on the left. Although military service is often described as a national duty in Israel, conscripts are increasingly questioning the ethics of their involvement."
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