Harper�s Index: April 2002 Number of Israeli military personnel jailed since September 2000 for refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories : 34
Minimum number of Israeli high school students who wrote Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last fall to refuse in advance : 62

{as I keep sending out, the fact of my presence in the midst of this great sick beast of a country, and see, over there too, and everywhere, the voices of the kind, of the hopeful, the confused wanting only peace and somehow to make it work that the violence not be so gratuitous, so cleanly evil and soulless, they're in Israel, they're in Kuwait, they're in Pakistan, Chechnya even, everywhere, drowned in the mad choral screams of blood seeking blood and greed manipulating the ignorant and simple, there is a 'we', an 'us', not a dream union but a ragged, changing mass of color and dream, maybe enough, maybe just enough to make the difference.}