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Chanting "No to war" and holding signs reading "Bibi, you ruined our lives. Don't end them," hundreds of people gathered every night in front of Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s apartment building in central Tel Aviv last night to protest an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The crowd, mostly young people chanted slogans against Barak and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu like "Bibi and Barak are dangerous," or the more straightforward, "Get out." Beyond the chants, and an odd series of emotive poems read near the end of the protest, a few public figures lent their support. MK Dov Khenin (Hadash), said a strike on Iran would be "a terrible, horrible tragedy." "We can all understand the costs and sacrifices of it, but few can say what its benefit is," Khenin said.
Daphni Leef, who started Israel’s social protest movement last summer, also spoke at the rally, and admonished Barak for creating tension in Israelis’ everyday existence. "We have no idea if our lives are ending today, tomorrow, next year or in 50 years," she said. The protest leaders returned every night to the same spot to campaign against a strike on Iran. Next Thursday (August 16) will be a massive protest against the war at 20:00, a rally from the Likud headquarters (Metzudat Zeev), near Gan Meir at King George Street, to the Defense Ministry in Tel-Aviv.
More on the next Thursday rally (in Hebrew):
http://www.facebook.com/events/472360036115192
Related:
http://maki.org.il/en/component/content/article/11508-cpi-for-the-future-for-life-stop-the-war-with-iran
http://maki.org.il/en/political/133-news/11517-hundreds-gathered-at-baraks-home-to-protest-the-strike-against-iran
http://maki.org.il/en/political/133-news/11515-haifa-a-protest-against-the-attack-on-iran
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