A group of pilots in the Israeli Air Force triggered a controversy in Israel when they signed a letter of refusal to take part in aerial attacks on the West Bank and Gaza. The pilots charge that their own military’s policy of targeting enemies in civilian centers is “illegal and immoral” because it takes the lives of innocent women and children. Israeli politicians denounced the pilots as traitors and dismissed their cause as politics parading as conscience.
Guests:
Yonatan Shapira, Refusnik and dismissed Captain in the Israeli Air Force Reserves;
Major “N,” current pilot in the Israeli Air Force