“The War Belongs to Olmert – The Victims Belong to Us!”
Here they were again – the “first nighters, those who are ready to get out and demonstrate against a new war in its first hours, when war propaganda pours out of all the media and all the parties, from the extreme Right to Meretz, support the war.
No organization called for the demonstration – but more than a thousand men and women gathered spontaneously in order to protest in front of the Ministry of Defense in Tel-Aviv, only a few hours after the murderous Air Force attack on the Gaza strip started.
They were members of the divers peace organizations, from “Gush shalom” and the “Women’s Coalition for Peace” to the “Anarchists Against the Wall” and Hadash. The police, apparently afraid that the protesters would storm the building in which the Minister and the Army High Command were conducting the war, took special precautions: the elite police commando unit was backed by mounted police. Reserves were hidden in side streets. At the beginning of the demonstration, some of the police confronted the crowd with loaded and pointed guns.
“Barak,Barak, Minister of Defense – How many children have you murdered today?” shouted the protesters, whose slogans were backed up by drums. They were especially incensed by the Meretz Party statement the day before, which justified an attack on Gaza, and shouted: “Meretz, Meretz Party – Again for a War?” In the conversations among the protesters, the latest article of the writer Amos Oz, who has been awarded several peace and literature prizes, was mentioned. The article, which justified the military attack, was published at the head of the first page of the mass-circulation daily Yediot Aharonot.
The protesters marched from the Cinemateque Square to the ministry.
A day before the war, Gush Shalom activists took part in a smaller demonstration which took place in the heart of Tel-Aviv, in order to warn against the attack. This action was not reported in any of the Israeli media.
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biTs RojiVerdes » Hemeroteca » Movilizaciones contra Israel said,
December 28, 2008 at 18:29
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maria said,
December 28, 2008 at 21:19
efectivamente, esta bien que lo hagan pero si no quieren ser tachados de sionistas que se vayan de ese estado genocida, allí no pintan nada salvo ocupar tierra palestina.
jaine benson said,
December 28, 2008 at 21:32
Being a non-jew in this lifetime, i sadly have no voice to call for the protests necessary, however, as a reincarnationalist, i can call for forgiveness to echo the yeshuah -based message that says forgive and you shall be forgiven…maybe the timewarp of this 60 yr insanity needs to go back to forgiving the nazis, then forgive the turks, then forgive the imperialists and finally forgive your neighbors as yourselves….as above so below, and viceversa, because what needs to be released is for your/our own future…..and like ave, bro to asher, who i met in the mall of america, past life friend, we say let it go! look into each others souls and refind eachother.
Tim Buck said,
December 28, 2008 at 21:47
Proof that not ALL Israelis are Zionist Nazis. It’s time for the US to condemn Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians! Stop sending military & monetary support to the apartheid state of Zion!
brian said,
December 28, 2008 at 22:16
Ministry of Defence…sounds so Orwellian in the light of israels penchant for aggressive violence.
Matt Giwer said,
December 29, 2008 at 01:50
Does a mere handful redeem an entire nation?
Tim said,
December 29, 2008 at 02:17
What is this with those who would censor what the rest of us see and hear. I live in the rapidly disintegrating United States. I think our path to revival should begin with a legal sentence for anyone in the major electronic and print media caught (tried and convicted using objective standards) lying, distorting or omitting “material” information getting themselves 500 lashes on their bare back. The modern media is the public square in any society and EVERYONE has the right to totally objective reporting. Anything short of that is partisan politics
acudoc said,
December 29, 2008 at 05:09
Go for it, beautiful protesters! The Israeli government will plunge the whole world into war by this Gaza mis-adventure. The people are the only ones to win the peace. These crooked politicians know only one thing—conflict—and only one solutions—-war. Stand strong and show the world the true patriots of Israel!
Jeanette said,
December 29, 2008 at 07:08
This is the last straw. I will no longer pay any income taxes if my money is going to be used to fund genocide. Will anyone join me?
Riaan said,
December 29, 2008 at 09:33
Where is the GERMAN pope Benedict XVI (Ratzinger)? His silence on this atrocity and crime is deafening. It looks to me he is in cahoots with the devils that slaughter innocent people. Where are you Josef Ratzinger? Why are you quiet?
The plan for this assault of the unspeakable state is to get rid of the people in Gaza for good. They fabricated reasons (just like they did in Lebanon with the fictitiously abducted soldier of the unspeakable illegal country).
ALL CITIZENS OF THE ILLEGAL UNSPEAKABLE COUNTRY ARE GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES AND MUST AND WILL BE PUNISHED! ALL DUAL CITIZENS OF THIS ILLEGAL UNSPEAKABLE COUNTRY ARE GUILTY AND MUST BE PUNISHED! THEY MUST NOT GET AWAY WITH THIS.
OBAMA”S administration is infested with dual citizens. Wake up America and ask Obama where his US birth certificate is? He does not have one and should not be president.!
My heart bleeds for Palestine.
Riaan said,
December 29, 2008 at 09:37
Matt Giwer said on December 29, 2008 at 1:50 am
“Does a mere handful redeem an entire nation?”
NO! It’s a ploy on there part to make their state look like a normal state. The whole thing is a smokescreen.
Michael Cecil said,
December 29, 2008 at 10:56
According to the Prophecy of Zechariah 12:8-9, “two thirds will be cut off or killed”; while one third will be ‘lead into the fire’ and ‘refined as silver is refined’.
I suggest that the people mentioned in this article will be among the one third rather than the two thirds.
According to the fractal Prophecy of Daniel 11:44, there must be a retaliation for the actions of the Israel in Gaza; the Israel being a ‘God’ unto itself (Daniel 11:36-39) and a fractal iteration of the “king of the South”.
Michael
Tina said,
December 29, 2008 at 12:53
I am so glad that the Palestinians are not alone in all of this, they are dying and no one is stopping this! Weren’t the Palestinians in this country before the Israelis took over? Why are they allowed to dominate and decimate them? The same happened in Georgia and Russia stopped them, who will stop Israel?
Rhubarb said,
December 29, 2008 at 14:13
These people are doing a wonderful Mitzvah, but their government are Nazi/Pharo-like satanists who only want to clear the land to rebuild the Beis Hamikdesh for wholly wicked and incomprehensible reasons. The ordinary Israelis simply provide the sea in which these despicable fish swim.
Dean Vantari said,
December 29, 2008 at 16:14
Che Guevara, one of the most ardent supporters of guerrilla warfare, laid out the strategy for asymmetrical warfare: Terrorist tactics are used against the more powerful enemy in order to elicit a counter-attack that is out of proportion to the guerrilla’s tactics, thereby provoking a moral and political backlash against the avenger’s brute force. This new provocation / revenge cycle seems to fit el Che’s strategy perfectly. Hammas would launch rocket attacks against Israel, who is known to have no mercy in it’s counter-attacks, in order to provoke the jerk reaction against the People of Gaza. It is the People who pay the price of their “leaders” strategic plans, to them they are just cannon fodder. The problem that must be solved some day is the unification Palestine, with as many ethnic, religious and political domains as are needed to maintain the peace within factions in the political class. A two nation solution has now evolved to three, but still there is no Peace. It is time to try an alternative solution, rather than to fall to the same revanchist conundrum of the past.
Eve said,
December 30, 2008 at 01:00
Yes we come out and then fade away again. No matter how many come to the protest 1 million or 100 hundred, it never changes the outcome. But we go anyway. we say what must be said to the winds around us. We alarm over the deaths of innocents, the disabled and made blind. We do all this.
We all see the evil of War. We all know better, it doesn’t WORK. We all look around the world and see the fires of war fanned by the trade in War materials. War is a business…
Where is heaven on earth ? Where is the Messiah ? Who will hold the hands of the terrified and hopeless in the next weeks in Gaza and Southern Israel ?
Can the day ever come when the reserves don’t report? when young men will have learned to say no to warring? It will only be when those who will die, say no to their own deaths, and thus save the world from Armies and Freedom Fighters….. It is never the creators of these wars who go to die, but the young and ignorant who go and die for them. and they become richer.
Only G-d can close our eyes to the horrors in this world. Great terror is about to be unleashed again and again…. on the people…. There is another way.