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Yesh G'vul, an Israeli group supporting soldiers with the difficult decision to refuse.

New Profile provides education and support for nonviolent solutions.

Combatants for Peace brings together ex-soldiers from both sides for speaking tours.

Events

"What Happened to Abir?"
Combatants for Peace U.S. Tour, January 16 - February 2, 2008, with Bassam Aramin, Yonatan Shapira, and Elik Elhanan

Breaking the Silence, an exhibit featuring photographs and other testimony of IDF soldiers, will be in Philadelphia in February and Cambridge in March.

RSN Store

BREAKING RANKS: Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip explores the personal and political acts of refusal by Israeli reservists. Read it and pass it along to friends and family. Receive Breaking Ranks for free by making a contribution to the RSN or purchase it from the RSN Store.

RSN News

CFP Receives Peace Abbey Award Combatants for Peace is being awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award, in response to nomination by Andrea LeBlanc of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. Founding members of C4P, Bassam Aramin and Elik Elhanan, are speaking throughout the San Francisco Bay Area to ask U.S. citizens help to press the Israeli government to reopen the case of Mr. Aramin's daughter and build a playground at her school in her memory.
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CFP Tour Press: Santa Cruz Sentinel
Talk features former Israeli and Palestinian fighters by Shanna McCord, 1/30/08

Combatants for Peace
Receives Award
Search for Common Ground honored Combatants for Peace with the 2007 Common Ground Award.
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Yesh Gvul Calls for Investigation of Shehadeh Bombing
In July, 2007, Yesh Gvul, a major Israeli refuser group supported by RSN, launched campaign calling for a full investigation of the 2002 assassination of Hamas leader Saleh Shehadeh which also killed 14 civilians when Israel dropped a one-ton bomb on their Gaza apartment building.

RSN has endorsed Yesh Gvul's campaign, which will include advertising on the internet and in Israeli newspapers as well as a major press conference and other actions on July 22, the fifth anniversary of the incident. RSN believes that the Israeli High Court's decision represents a major breakthrough in exposing IDF attacks on civilians.

Panel might probe 2002 killing of Hamas commander Shehadeh
By Yuval Yoaz | Haaretz | 2007.6.18

The ruling handed down at Sunday's hearing rested on an earlier decision issued in December 2006 by a panel headed by then Supreme Court president Aharon Barak. That ruling upheld the government's right to assassinate terrorists, but said that if an assassination resulted in the death of innocent civilians, the decision and its execution must then be 'objectively' examined to determine what went wrong. While the court did not clarify what it meant by this, legal experts believe an inquiry committee set up by the Defense Ministry would suffice. [Read More...]