All Israelis should perform occupation duties, so we cannot say 'we didn't know'http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3409938,00.html<
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"Despite it not being "economically viable," every citizen should be enlisted for one day every year to fulfill the functions of the occupation, each in accordance with his or her ability.
Let one stand at a checkpoint and let another be a clerk at the Interior Ministry in East Jerusalem. Those who can should assist in arresting wanted persons in the middle of the night in a village near Nablus. Those who are creative should build the separation fence.
Anyone could fire at those wretched people searching for metal in the rubble of evacuated Dugit in the Gaza Strip.
The youngsters from the Saturday-night brawls at the nightclubs should conduct stone-throwing battles with Palestinian children close to the roads. The soft-hearted should guard detainees during Shin Bet interrogations.
All occupation assignments should be visible to us all and we should experience them from up close. Let no one say he never saw the TV exposé on the Territories because he was glued to A Star is Born (the local version of American Idol.)
Let no one use the excuse he had not read the newspaper articles because he was transfixed on AB Yehoshua's books.
Let no one say he didn't see the repression in Jerusalem because he hasn't frequented East Jerusalem since laying tefillin at the Western Wall during his bar mitzvah.
When the day comes let no Israeli tell the Master of the Universe or his conscience: " I didn't know."