The Israeli occupation army yesterday dismissed a second officer for refusing to serve in protest of the resumption of the war on Gaza.
“The thing that will most help protect my people now is to refuse to take part in fighting in the service of a bunch of filthy traitors and in complete opposition to the interests of the people of Israel,” Michael Majer, an officer in the Military Intelligence Directorate, wrote on X.
Commenting on the army’s decision to stop calling him up for reserve duty, Majer said in a separate post that he “stands by every word I wrote in this context, in this tweet and others, and this is what I said in the conversation about my dismissal as well.”
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“The easiest thing for people like me is to continue to comply. I could have continued to serve, and I could have easily evaded it under various pretexts. My choice to express my position publicly is a difficult one, with significant personal, social, and psychological consequences, but it is the right choice,” he added.
“There must be red lines for anyone. For me, they were crossed a long time ago. I will not participate in an operation driven by subjective motives, which means abandoning kidnapped soldiers to die, sending soldiers to kill and be killed in vain, and continuing the multifaceted deterioration of the State of Israel. All of this is under a regime that has long since lost legitimacy and is solely for the sake of preserving its power,” he added.
Yesterday, an Israeli Air Force reservist navigator was dismissed for a similar post on social media.
“I met with the squadron commander and told him… The line has been crossed at the point where the government has once again deliberately abandoned its citizens in broad daylight, at the point where reckless and cold political considerations have taken precedence over all other considerations, at the point where human life has lost its value, and at the point where the government is targeting the guardians of its own threshold,” Alon Gore wrote.
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