This article appeared in Ha’aretz’ weekend magazine. It is probably one of the longest, most sympathetic pieces about the COs, to appear in a mainstream Israeli media outlet. It focuses mostly on the obstacles the army puts in the path of potential COs, and the inappropriate composition and procedures of the army’s CO committee.
“The committee should not be a military one. The question on the agenda is not in which units soldiers will serve; it has to do with the values of the society as a civil society, to which the army, too, is subordinate. The fact that the committee has four officers and one civilian [position] means that the considered opinion of the civil-social level becomes a minority. That is not healthy.”
