- Some 6,000 peace protestors gathered Saturday night at
Rabin Square in Tel Aviv for what organizers said marked the opening of
a "street campaign" that will be conducted over the next few
months by Peace Now.
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- The demonstrators marched from the square through Tel
Aviv to the Defense Ministry compound close to the Azrieli Center.
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- Among the speakers were Labor Party Secretary-General
Ophir Pines-Paz, Meretz MK Avshalom Vilan and former Labor MK Yael Dayan.
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- All of the speakers kept to the central theme of the
protest, calling for Israel to quit the settlements in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip, and for an end to the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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- Dayan emphasized the economic cost of the settlements,
saying that the government was still pumping huge amounts of money into
them, while other Israelis were going hungry. She pointed out that each
year, 5,000 more children in the country slipped below the poverty line.
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- Demonstrators also denounced the Sharon government's
policy of assassinating figures from Hamas and other extremist groups,
saying the policy creates an endless cycle of violence.
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- Former MK and Oslo architect Yossi Beilin was also present,
although he did not speak. Singer Aviv Geffen performed a selection of
his songs.
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- http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/342251.html
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- Comment
- From Shulamit Kerem - Tel Aviv
- 9-21-3
- Dear Mr. Rense,
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- THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL WEBSITE.
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- Your website is fast becoming very popular in Israel,
as only on your website we can find the truth. Only thanks to your website
did we realise how we Israelis have been fooled by the Zionists.
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- One example today: Immediately after you posted: '10,000
Israeli's Protest The Zionist Occupation' our Haaretz newspaper dropped
the numbers down to 6000, see:
- http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/342251.html
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- Tomorrow, they may bring it down to 600. :-)
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- We Israelis used to trust this paper blindly, but now
we lost trust in all our papers.
- Keep up your wonderful website.
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- Shulamit Kerem
- Tel Aviv
- Israel
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