Yesh Gvul

Yesh Gvul (Hebrew: יש גבול, can be translated as "there is a limit", as "there is a border", or as "enough is enough") is a movement founded in 1982 at the outbreak of the Lebanon War, by combat veterans who refused to serve in Lebanon. Yesh Gvul's campaign of selective refusal is credited with contributing to the Israeli government's decision to withdraw from south Lebanon.

Members of Yesh Gvul have also opposed military service in the Occupied Territories. Their slogan in 2014 was "We don't shoot, we don't cry, and we don't serve in the occupied territories!"

Members of Yesh Gvul perform military duty on a selective basis, dependent upon the nature and location of service. As such "selective refusal" is a form of "civil disobedience" (modelled on methods pioneered by Mahatma Gandhi in India), the combat veterans are subject to military and civil charges. From 1971 till 1979, the Ministry of Defense pragmatically allowed such selective objectors, when drafted, to serve within the 'green line' separating Israel from the occupied territories.

Yesh Gvul has been classified as one of numerous Israeli organization related to the radical left.

In the late 20th century, as objectors to military service in certain locations became more numerous, the Israeli military was less willing to provide them with service in alternative assignments.

"Army authorities had given objectors a guarantee that they would be stationed according to their wishes, within the borders of Israel, as long as refusal was an isolated phenomenon. Now [1980] policy has changed. What had once been sporadic instances of refusal with which the IDF was prepared to live, has changed in character and become an organized protest whose aim is to turn the IDF—the national army, necessarily disengaged from any political or ideological arguments—into the battleground for a kind of confrontation which the army cannot be associated with."— Proceedings of the Supreme Court, 24 September 1980; cited in Peri (1993).

In an Israeli military court martial of April-May 1998, which drew considerable public attention, Reserve Corporal Adam Keller was charged with "Insubordination" and "Spreading of Propaganda Harmful to Military Discipline." While on active military duty, he had written graffiti on 117 tanks and other military vehicles, with the following text: "Soldiers of the IDF, refuse to be occupiers and oppressors, refuse to serve in the occupied territories!" He also had placed stickers on electricity pylons in the military camp where he was serving—and on the inside of doors of the stalls in the officers' toilet— with the slogan "Down with the occupation!"

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