Israeli Group Declares Limit in Making War on Palestinians
The statement, which was published in the liberal newspaper Haaretz last week as Israelis began their weekend, condemned military actions against the Palestinians during the last 16 months of violence.

It asserted that people on both sides of the conflict were paying in blood for what it called Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory and its war to protect Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

"The price of occupation is the army's loss of its human image and the corruption of all of Israeli society," the statement said. "We will continue serving in the Israel Defense Forces in any mission that serves Israel's defense. The mission of occupation and repression does not serve this goal and we will not take part in it."

The statement said that during their service in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the signers had received orders "that have nothing to do with the security of the state and their only purpose was perpetuating control over the Palestinian people."

Such orders "destroy all the values we have absorbed in this country," the statement added.

Those orders have included demolition of homes, firing heavy machine guns into civilian neighborhoods in response to Palestinian mortar fire, shooting at stone-throwing boys, and blockading villages, the signers of the statement said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/29/international/middleeast/29ISRA.html