Dov Yermiya

Dov Yermiya is a former Israeli Defence Forces lieutenant-colonel who became famous after the publishing of his My War Diary: Lebanon June 5 -- July 1, 1982, which treats the subject of the 1982 Lebanon War. The book criticizes Israeli wrongdoings during the war, and was first published in Hebrew with the title "Yoman Hamilchama Sheli". It was later translated to English and published by South End Press. The book has been given some attention by western intellectuals, such as the US writer Noam Chomsky. According to the publishers, the book "provoked widespread controversy when it was first published in Israel in 1983".

In July 2009, Yermiya wrote to friends expressing his despair at the situation in Israel and Palestine, and concluding

Therefore I, a 95 year old Sabra (native born Israeli Jew), who has plowed its fields, planted trees, built a house and fathered sons, grandsons and great-grandsons, and also shed his blood in the battle for the founding of the State of Israel, Declare herewith that I renounce my belief in the Zionism which has failed, that I shall not be loyal to the Jewish fascist state and its mad visions, that I shall not sing anymore its nationalist anthem, that I shall stand at attention only on the days of mourning for those fallen on both sides in the wars, and that I look with a broken heart at an Israel that is committing suicide and at the three generations of offspring that I have bred and raised in it.

—Dov Yermiya in July 2009^[1]

1. ^ A Jeremiad, Uri Avnery 1 August 2009

References

• Mitchell, Peter R., Schoeffel, John, Understanding Power - Noam Chomsky (2006), ch. 8.
• South End Press - My War Diary

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