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>Subject: [multitudes-infos] FW: [GushShalomPress] a
resisting pilot & a poem by Hanoch Levin
>Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:11:36 +0200
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>Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 3:31 PM
>Subject: [GushShalomPress] a resisting pilot & a poem
by Hanoch Levin
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> > [Gradually one chilling fact after the other is
seeping into the
>international mainstream
> > media. We decided to send you today the unusual
news found in the
>ultra-nationalist
> > Hebrew paper Hatzofeh - about a case of
conscientious disobedience inside
>the Air Force -
> > and a catching poem for the occasion of
Independence Day (starting
>tonight) by the late
> > playwright and poet Chanoch Levin.]
> >
> > [1] Right-wing press leaks case of conscientious
disobedience in the Air
>Force
> > [2] The Classic Recipe for Independence / Hanoch
Levin
> >
> >
> > [1]
> > The pilot of an Israeli helicopter gunship
reportedly refused an order to
> > shoot a missile at a Palestinian home. It happened
on the early hours of
> > Tuesday, April 9 - when an Israeli army regiment,
supported by tanks and
> > helicopter gunships, captured the Palestinian town
of Dura, near Hebron in
>the
> > southern West Bank. During several hours of
fighting when the army
>overcame the
> > resistance of local Palestinian militias, the
regimental commander ordered
>the
> > pilot of a helicopter gunship to shoot a missile
at a Palestinian home, in
> > which five alleged terrorists were hiding, in
order to "liquidate them"
>(sic).
> > The pilot refused, telling the regimental
commander there might be
>civilians in
> > the house. The radio debate continued for a long
time, with the helicopter
> > hovering over the house. The commander told the
pilot that the five
>terrorists
> > could be exactly pin-pointed in the house and
again ordered him to shoot.
>The
> > pilot again refused, and at a certain point left
the vicinity of the house
>and
> > cycled the town. When he got back to the point
above the house, the
> > commander told him that the terrorists had
disappeared, but ordered him to
> > shoot at the house nevertheless. The pilot again
refused. After two hours,
>he
> > finally shot one burst from the helicopter's
cannon, but near the house
>rather
> > than at it. Soldiers nearby on the ground
described the shot as
>"perfunctory,
> > meant to hit nothing".
> > The story is published today (Monday, April 15) by
Haggai Huberman of the
> > extreme-right paper Hatzofeh. Huberman's account
is clearly the regiment
> > commander's version, accusing the pilot of
"helping five terrorists
>escape" and
> > dismissing the possibility that there had been
civilians inside the house
>in
> > question; the pilot's viewpoint is not given.
> >
> > [2]
> >
> > The Classic Recipe for Independence / Hanoch Levin

> >
> > [With thanks to Ran HaCohen who displayed and
> > translated it. Original Hebrew follows.]
> >
> > The classic recipe for independence:
> > Take people and send them to die.
> > Then make ceremonies, sew flags,
> > Sign a long charter with many words.
> > Feel how the back becomes erect,
> > Even though the hunchbacks remain crooked.
> >
> > The classic recipe for independence:
> > Take people and send them to die.
> > Then open offices, eat watermelons, make love,
> > Shed sweat, feel in your mouth a light sense of
disappointment.
> > Suddenly discover next to you another small
nation, wretched and
>oppressed.
> > Let its buzz bother you like that of a fly.
> >
> > The classic recipe for independence:
> > Take people and send them to die.
> > Then crush the nation next to you, oppress it to
dust.
> > It wants what you wanted - don't give it anything.

> > It points a pistol - reply with a canon, it
threatens - you murder.
> > Let the living shout, let the dead rot away, let
the undertaker win.
> >
> > The classic recipe for independence:
> > Take people and send them to die.
> > Then shake hands, visit the tomb of the unknown
soldier, open an embassy.
> > Hold speeches on friendship, eternity, fraternity,
commercial and cultural
> > ties.
> > Sit comfortably in an armchair, open an evening
paper, read with wonder:
> > Somewhere on earth, somebody is sending people to
die.
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