There is no covenant around service, just as there is no government around conscription. Without clear values, the "Covenant of Servers" is just a pale imitation of the Covenant of Racists

Capt. (res.) Tom Pinchasi describes how this week he stood between an abusive deputy battalion commander and Palestinian farmers, and returned to the 'Covenant of Servers' campaign that associates him and the officer with the same camp. He returns to Martin Buber on two streams of Zionism, and argues that measuring partnership solely by service forgets to ask 'service in the name of what'.

Capt. (res.) Tom Pinchasi, a leader of the student protest movement, describes how this week he stood between a deputy battalion commander who acted violently and Palestinian farmers, and returned home to the 'Covenant of Servers' campaign that associates him and the officer with the same political camp. He returns to Martin Buber, who wrote two weeks after the Declaration of Independence about two streams of Zionism: one that says 'enough' once the state is established, and one that sees Zionism as tikkun olam. Pinchasi argues that those who measure political partnership solely by service forget to ask 'service in the name of what', and those who see sovereignty as everything desecrate the name of Zionism. He cites the latest election results in which the Joint List and Ra'am received 19 seats, compared to 10 in the previous Knesset, and calls for coexistence with Arab citizens of Israel not as a political necessity but as a condition for the existence of the Zionist enterprise.

There is no covenant around service, just as there is no government around conscription. Without clear values, the "Covenant of Servers" is just a pale imitation of the Covenant of Racists