Carmel said those soldiers who answered the call in 2023 and have since come back from Gaza with new testimony for Breaking the Silence, returned with “a deep disappointment in the mission and in the exploitation of people, of Israelis, in order to carry out this mission, which is so obviously a political war”. “The way that I was brought up, in the community I was brought up in, but also in the training that I got in the IDF, you’re told that everything that we do as soldiers is for the purpose of keeping our friends and our families safe. “I think, in terms of our organisation, it’s very difficult for the government and for the State of Israel to have us, because we are speaking truth to power and we’re doing the work of the opposition,” Carmel explained, “because our opposition is very, very weak in Israel.”
Author: David MacRedmond
Published at: 2025-06-14 20:00:04
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