http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/741404.html
Demonstrators marching in Tel Aviv to protest against Israel's offensive
in Lebanon. (Dudu Bachar)
Last update - 23:55 22/07/2006
Anti-war Tel Aviv rally draws Jewish, Israeli Arab crowd
By Lily Galili
More than 2,500 people on Saturday attended a mass demonstration
against the war in Lebanon, marching from Tel Aviv's Rabin Square to a rally at
the Cinemateque plaza.
The rally was the first of its kind protesting against the IDF's
offensive in Lebanon. Unlike previous anti-war protests in israel, major Arab
organizations in Israel - among them Hadash and Balad - participated in the
event in large numbers.
They were joined by the left flank of the Zionist Left -former
Meretz leader Shulamit Aloni and Prof. Galia Golan, alongside the radical left
of Gush Shalom, the refusal to serve movement Yesh Gvul, Anarchists Against the
Wall, Coalition of Women for Peace, Taayush and others.
These Jewish and Arab groups ordinarily shy away from joint
activity. They couldn't come up with a unifying slogan this time either, except
for the call to stop the war and start talking. However, protest veterans noted
that in the Lebanon War of 1982 it took more than 10 days of warfare to bring
out this many protesters, marking the first crack in the consensus.
The protest drew some new faces, like Tehiya Regev of Carmiel,
whose two neighbors were killed in a Katyusha attack on the city. "This war is
not headed in the right direction," she told Haaretz; "the captured soldiers
have long since been forgotten, so I came to call for an immediate stop to this
foolish and cruel war."
The rally, which received wide international press coverage, had a
theme unfamiliar from previous demonstrations here. Beside the usual calls for
the prime minister and defense minister to resign, this was a distinctly
anti-American protest. Alongside chants of "We will not kill, we will not die
in the name of Zionism" there were chants of "We will not die and
ill not kill in the service of the United States," and slogans
condemning President George W. Bush.
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