Now writer Iczkovits, while still critic of the occupation and Netanyahu governments, rejoined the army to fight Hamas.
Tamir Sorek, in retrospect, sees the language of the letter as "too patriotic" and inappropriate towards a joint Israeli-Palestinian activism.
[4] At first, the IDF responded by sentencing any refusenik who refused to serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to jail.
The right wing opposes the movement, claiming its activities amount to treason during wartime and that activists' refusal to serve encourages Palestinians to step up suicide bombings in order to break Israeli society.
The left wing, which opposes the occupation, is split between those who see refusal as a legitimate political tool and those who believe that it is unlawful and only serves to undermine the IDF's and the Israeli peace camp's standing within the populace.