Professors for a Strong Israel

Statement to the Press - 30 August 2004

Re: Contemptible work

Our sages taught us that there is no distinction between honorable and contemptible work, since all work brings honor to the worker. The Sharon government, on the other hand, has demonstrated the existence of contemptible work: work that brings contempt to the worker and his supervisor, and that nobody wants to touch. Such is the work that the Ministers of Defense and of Internal Security are trying to foist on one another, the contemptible work of expelling Jews from their homes.

Professors for a Strong Israel is amazed that in the midst of this Oslo War, when they should be concentrating on defeating the enemy, the Security Cabinet convenes … to decide which Minister will commit the indecent act, the act that ought not and cannot be carried out. Will they call up reservists with emergency orders (tzav 8), as in wartime, in order to free up regular soldiers to do the contemptible deed?

The security forces -- police and army, regular and reserves -- exist to fight the enemy, not to fight the citizens of Israel.

Dr. Ron Breiman, Chairman of PSI
Tel: 050-5-518 940