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| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: January 4, 2005 |
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Right-wing activists are distributing to IDF conscripts CDs with a decade-old recording in which Ariel Sharon urged soldiers to disobey orders that go against their conscience. Sharon made the statements in and interview with Hagai Segal of the pirate radio station Arutz 7 during the campaign against the Oslo Accords and the Givat Hadagan evacuations, Haaretz reported.
"As one who served in the IDF for many years, I say that a soldier must obey orders, and if the soldier feels that the order he's been given contradicts his conscience, he must personally, and I stress personally, report to his commander, explain this to him and be prepared to bear the consequences, as has happened before," Sharon said in the interview.
In the same interview, Sharon said: "I think that in the whole matter of crossing the line, responsibility resides with the government, and it must prevent situations of lines in the sand. This government must understand that when it talks about democracy, here too there is a gross twisting of meaning. Democracy must not be a dictatorship of the majority. You can't do everything and certainly in this case with matters that will determine our fate."
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