More than 150,000 people packed Tel Aviv's Kikar Rabin on Saturday night, demanding that Israel immediately withdraw from the Gaza Strip. Organizers called it the first revival of Israel's dormant center-left movement since the eruption of the intifada 40 months ago. The rally went ahead despite condemnation from the Right, and chiefly the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip, that holding a left-wing rally was akin to "dancing on the graves" of the 13 soldiers who were killed in action in the Gaza Strip last week.
Security at the event was tight, with some 1,300
police officers, border policemen, sappers, and
volunteers patrolling the area around Kikar Rabin and blocking off streets in a radius of some 500 meters.
Organizers said droves of people were spotted as far as a kilometer from Kikar Rabin.
Opposition leader Shimon Peres (Labor) gave a speech that seemed to dispel rumors that his party would join the Likud in a national unity government. "We must not support a puppet government that follows the delusional ideas of the Right," he said.
Peres, saying that 1 percent of the nation is blocking what 80% of Israelis really want ? peace and negotiations with the Palestinians ? continued, "We will not allow that 1% to send us back to war."
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Security at the event was tight, with some 1,300
police officers, border policemen, sappers, and
volunteers patrolling the area around Kikar Rabin and blocking off streets in a radius of some 500 meters.
Organizers said droves of people were spotted as far as a kilometer from Kikar Rabin.
Opposition leader Shimon Peres (Labor) gave a speech that seemed to dispel rumors that his party would join the Likud in a national unity government. "We must not support a puppet government that follows the delusional ideas of the Right," he said.
Peres, saying that 1 percent of the nation is blocking what 80% of Israelis really want ? peace and negotiations with the Palestinians ? continued, "We will not allow that 1% to send us back to war."
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the other side of the story the media "forget" to mention
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