Constantin Soskin is one in a long series of young Israelis who have refused to
serve in the army. So far more than one thousand Israeli youth have refsued to
be conscripted. Thus the term "refusenik" was coined. He is presently
serving a jail sentence because of his refusal, together with several others.
The Israeli Labour Party (Avodah in Hebrew) has been in long-term
decline. A. Kramer, in Israel, looks at the background and the reasons
behind this decline and points out that opportunities are opening up
for a genuine left force in Israeli society.
After two and a half years of a desperate uprising in which 2,500
Palestinians and more than 700 Israelis have been killed, the
Palestinian capitalists and petit bourgeois are crawling on their
stomachs before the US and Israeli rulers. Once again history has
proven that the methods of individual terror are leading only to
defeat.