a big part of the israeli anti-occupation movement is the soldiers, prospective soldiers and reservists who declare their refusal to serve in the army. there are currently almost 1400 such soldiers. i wish we had something like this in the US. the US has maybe 50 times the (jewish) population of israel, so 1400 israeli refuseniks would be like 70,000 american refusers.

then again, israel has a draft and obligatory reserve duties. if we had that here, we probably *would* have 70,000 refusers.