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Company C - An American's Life as a Citizen-Soldier in the Israeli Army (Paperback)
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Company C - An American's Life as a Citizen-Soldier in the Israeli Army (Paperback)
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A vivid dispatch from the front lines of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict
When American-born Haim Watzman immigrated to Israel, he was
drafted into the army and, after eighteen months of compulsory
service, assigned to "Company C," the reserve infantry unit that
would define the next twenty years of his life. From 1984 until
2002, for at least a month a year, Watzman, who had never aspired
to military adventure, was a soldier.
Watzman was a soldier as he adjusted to a new country, married,
raised his children, and pursued a career as a writer and
translator. At times he defended his adopted country's borders; at
other times he patrolled beyond them, or in that gray area, the
occupied territories. A religiously observant Jew who opposed
Israel's presence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, he served in
uniform in conflicts that he demonstrated against in civilian
clothes. Throughout, he developed a deep and abiding bond with the
diverse men of Company C--a fellowship that cemented his commitment
to reserve service even as he questioned the occupation he was
enforcing.
In this engrossing account of the first Intifada, the period of the
Oslo Accords, and Israel's reoccupation of the West Bank as lived
by citizen-soldiers in the field, Watzman examines our obligations
to country, friends, family, and God-and our duty to protect our
institutions even as we fight to reform them.
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