Engaging Disengagement

Engaging Disengagemen

 

Links on Disengagement (in Hebrew)

Organized by source, rather than by subject.
Prepared by Gila Ansell Brauner and Irena Chernaya

I. Official Websites
II. Background, Legal Background
III. Online Newspapers
IV. Educational Websites
V. Organizations (special features)

I. Official Websites

Knesset

Also from the MFA http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFAHeb/MFAArchive/2004/DISENGAGEMENT%20PLAN%20060604

http://www.knesset.gov.il/protocols/data/html/huka/2004-12-14-01.html
List of attendees and minutes of Knesset Committee

PMO-SELA

http://sela.pmo.gov.il

II. Background, Legal Background

Wikipedia

- Gush Katif - very little history, only dates and list of Yishuvim, further links; political background in detail.
http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A9_%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A3
- Hitnatkut
Extensive summary but reasons for the plan are less developed than those for opposition to it.
http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%99%
D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%94%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%AA

- Illegal order - Legal Rulings
All military orders must be obeyed, with the exception of an illegal order. The Israel Supreme Court has defined this in terms of orders to kill unarmed persons or innocent civilians. No resources on International Law, e.g. War Crimes resources.
http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%93
%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%AA
%D7%99_%D7%97%D7%95%D7%A7%
D7%99%D7%AA_%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9C

- Kfar Kassem massacre, 29th October, 1956
http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%91%D7%97_%D7
%9B%D7%A4%D7%A8_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%9D

- Rulings on the 300 bus trial
http://62.90.71.124/files/01/680/046/f12/01046680.f12.HTM
- Refusal to serve, Refusing military orders
The right to pacifism vs. selective refusal. Intifada-related, Disengagement-related
http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%A8%D7%91%D7
%A0%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C

Cellcom

More cases related to refusal of orders, in brief
http://cellcom.channel.co.il/cellmagz/content/specials/chayalim03/chayalim017.htm

III. Online Newspapers

Haaretz

Maariv

MSN

Ynet

IV. Educational Websites

Israel Ministry of Education/Snunit

Background and exercises, assignments for high school classes on obeying orders and manifestly illegal orders, with case histories and citations, also refusal to serve.
http://noar.education.gov.il/main/upload/alsederyom/obedience1.doc
http://www.snunit.k12.il/minhal/12084.html
http://www.snunit.k12.il/minhal/12083.html
http://www.snunit.k12.il/minhal/word/40309.doc

Eshel School

Hyde Park Activity with guest speakers, plus large regional map http://eshel.school.org.il/NewsPaper/Catavot/hp.htm

Kipa

Refusal to obey an order, rabbinical response to a query: obey the law of the land and the IDF
http://www.kipa.co.il/ask/show.asp?id=58100

Kollel Torah MiTzion

Downloads in zip files - sources, study activities
http://www.torahmitzion.org/heb/resources/FilesView.asp?id=3672

Lookstein Center [Illegal Order - Jewish Sources, English]

Resources on illegal orders, Professor Moshe Sokolow: "When Must Soldiers Disobey Direct Orders? A Biblical, Talmudic, Midrashic Analysis of An All Too Contemporary Question"
http://www.lookstein.org/resources/whenmustsoldiers.htm

Safa Ivrit

Hitnatkut and Hinatkut - meaning and usage
http://www.safa-ivrit.org/form/hinatkut.php

Sikumim

Israeli revision website, Civics
http://www.sikumim.co.il/sikumim/grade11/ezrahut5.htm

V. Organizations (special features)

Melitz

http://www.melitz.org.il/programs/melitz_america/index.htm

Tzionut - Realistic Religious Zionism

Addresses messianic ideology and majority voter opinion; appeal for realism in the NRP
http://www.tzionut.org/articles_details.asp?id=48

Katif Net

http://www.katif.net/

 

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