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<h1>Don’t Let Israeli Army Brainwash You, Warns Powerful Short
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<span class="cat-date-line4">By Maureen Clare Murphy, <a
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<p>A new dark, psychological short film by Nadim Hamed produced by
Eyad Barghouti in cooperation with the Palestinian civil society
groups 7amleh and <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/baladna">Baladna</a>
makes a bold statement against Israel’s latest attempts to
enlist <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/palestinians-israel">Palestinian
citizens of Israel</a> in the occupation army.</p>
<p><em>Project X</em> features Samer Bisharat (star of
Oscar-nominated <em><a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/paradise-now-director-tackles-taboo-collaboration-new-film/12806">Omar</a></em>)
as a youth who is brainwashed into serving in the army. But
instead of gaining the privileges promised by a Palestinian
collaborator, the young man realizes only devastating
psychological and social costs as a result of his choice to
serve.</p>
<p>The artistically potent short takes up one of the most pressing
issues facing the nearly 1.7 million Palestinian citizens of
Israel who face daily systematic discrimination from education
to employment and severe restrictions on land ownership.</p>
<h2>Repression</h2>
<p>Israel has long sought to repress national identity amongst the
Palestinians who managed to remain on the land conquered by
Zionist forces in 1948 when an estimated 750,000 Palestinians
were ethnically cleansed from approximately 500 villages and
cities.</p>
<p>The latest effort aims to drive a sectarian wedge between
Palestinian Christians and Muslims in present-day Israel. In
February, Israel’s parliament, the <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/knesset">Knesset</a>,
approved a law identifying Palestinian Christians as a <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-christians-not-really-arabs-says-senior-israeli-lawmaker">non-Arab</a>
minority group.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.merip.org/mero/mero051314">According to
journalist Jonathan Cook</a>, “The measure is a minor one: It
provides Christians with separate representation in the national
employment advisory council. But it lays the foundations for a
much greater scheme declared by [chairman of the ruling
Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu faction Yariv] Levin to create a
Christian nationality, leaving the traditional ‘Arab’ one to
refer to Muslims only.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Israel has <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-army-recruitment-plan-aims-incite-christian-muslim-tensions/12645">groomed</a> a
handful of clergy and members of the Christian community to
promote military service among Christians, and recently sent out
recruitment papers to Palestinian Christian youths.</p>
<p>Except for minority groups such as the <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/druze">Druze</a>,
Palestinian citizens of Israel, who comprise approximately 20
percent of the state’s population, are not required to perform
army service.</p>
<p>Many state benefits are tied to army service, including
employment, and “Israel may be banking on desperation driving
some youths into the army’s hands,” as Ali Abunimah has <a>noted</a>.</p>
<h2>Resistance</h2>
<p>However, the reruitment efforts are being met with <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/hebrew-university-sets-police-students-protesting-army-recruitment/13379">resistance
by Palestinian students at Israeli universities</a> and <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinians-call-refusal-israel-army-service">anti-enlistment
campaigning</a> by Palestinian civil society organizations.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, a <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-tried-brainwash-us-says-druze-pioneer-who-refused-army-service/13047">growing
number</a> of Druze youths are refusing to serve in the army
and the state is facing an organized campaign within the
community against the compulsory enlistment.</p>
<p>Eighteen-year-old <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/omar-saad">Omar Saad</a>
has served approximately 150 days in prison since 4 December,
when he <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/druze-youth-military-prison-refusing-israeli-army-draft">reported
to an Israeli military induction center</a> to declare his
refusal to serve in the army.</p>
<p>Saad, one of the longest-serving conscientious objectors in
Israel, is currently recovering at home from a liver infection
which his father has <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/rights-groups-call-israel-free-druze-army-refuser">blamed</a>
on the poor conditions of the military prison where Saad was
being held.</p>
<p><a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/rights-groups-call-israel-free-druze-army-refuser">Another
conscientious objector</a>, 18-year-old Orthodox Jew Uriel
Ferera, was given a second ten-day prison sentence on 25 May for
his refusal to serve in the military, the anti-militarization
group New Profile <a
href="http://www.newprofile.org/english/node/437">reported</a>.
[UPDATE: shortly after this post was published, New Profile <a
href="http://www.newprofile.org/english/node/439">reported</a>
that Ferera was handed down a third sentence yesterday — this
time twenty days — of imprisonment.]</p>
<p>New Profile and a number of other human rights, community and
political organizations, including <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/amnesty-international">Amnesty
International</a>, Baladna and the Druze Initiative Committee,
have launched an <a
href="http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/moshe-ya-alon-minister-of-defence-israel-put-an-end-to-the-imprisonment-of-omar-sa-ad-and-all-other-individuals-who-are-detained-solely-for-their-conscientious-objection-to-military-service?recruiter=21606283&utm_campaign=mailto_link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition">online
petition</a> calling on Israel to end the detention of
conscientious objectors.</p>
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