"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 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." Parecer da Suprema Corte de Israel, 24 de setembro de 1980; citado em Peri (1993) apudThe freedom of conscience and sociological perspectives on dilemmas of collective secular disobedience: the case of Israel, por Alek D. Epstein.
