We Refuse

• Words: Based on the text of an open letter written by 63 draft-age Israeli teenagers on 3rd January 2018 to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the forces' chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Education Minister Naftali Bennet, publicly refusing to be conscripted into the Israeli army.
• Music: Jane Lewis

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We refuse to serve the occu­pa­tion,
We refuse to take part in oppres­sion,
We are not pre­pared to take up guns any more
We refuse con­scrip­tion ‘til the occu­pa­tion ends
We refuse con­scrip­tion ‘til the occu­pa­tion ends

Part A
For we are bound by the val­ues of jus­tice, peace, equal­i­ty,
And will not lend a hand to a racist gov’ment pol­i­cy.
We will not be draft­ed to serve in the army,
We refuse con­scrip­tion ‘til the occu­pa­tion ends

Part B
We know there is anoth­er real­i­ty
That we can cre­ate togeth­er
We will not be denied this pos­si­bil­i­ty
We refuse con­scrip­tion ‘til the occu­pa­tion ends

we refuse

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