Former IDF soldiers speak out against Israeli occupation at J Street U Duke event...

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Former Israel Defense Forces soldiers Tal Sagi and Luiz Aberbuj, members of anti-occupation organization Breaking the Silence, spoke at a Wednesday event organized by the Duke chapter of J Street U. 

Sagi, educational director for Breaking the Silence, and Aberbuj, the organization’s Jewish diaspora educational coordinator, discussed how their experiences serving in the IDF shaped their perspective of Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories. 

Breaking the Silence is an organization founded in 2004 in the aftermath of the Second Intifada. Sagi described it as a group of former IDF soldiers sharing their experiences from their service to raise awareness and discuss the “moral cost of the occupation.”

“Our main goal is to end occupation and we believe that the first step should be that people will talk about it and will understand the price that Israelis and Palestinians are paying for the situation of ongoing military control for so many years,” Sagi said.

Israel has occupied and built settlements throughout the Palestinian territories — including the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip — since 1967, though settlements in the Gaza Strip were dismantled in 2005. The Biden administration’s current policy, announced in February, says that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are “inconsistent with international law.”

Sagi grew up in a right-wing, Orthodox Jewish family in a West Bank settlement. When people called her a settler, she denied their accusations but did not know what a settlement meant. 

Without any means to understand what settlements were, Sagi grew up not asking questions about settlements and never conversed with the Palestinian neighbors who lived close to her home. 

Full article:  https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/03/duke-university-forme...

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