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Timur Tengah ini semua sedang kacau, termasuk Yahudi juga sekarang protes k= arena biaya hidup mahal dan ekonomi sulit. Up to 300,000 take part in Tel Aviv, 50,000 in Jerusalem and 40,000 in Haif= a in Israel's biggest ever demonstration Hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets on Saturday night in = Israel's biggest ever demonstration to demand social justice, a lower cost = of living and a clear government response to the concerns of an increasingl= y squeezed middle class. About 430,000 people took part in marches and rallies across the country, a= ccording to police. The biggest march was in Tel Aviv, where up to 300,000 = took part. There was an unprecedented 50,000-strong protest in Jerusalem, a= nd 40,000 marched in Haifa. There were smaller protests in dozens of other = towns and cities. It had been billed as the "march of the million" but organisers said a turn= out matching the 300,000-strong demonstrations four weeks ago would be a tr= iumph. Israel's population is 7.7 million. Saturday's demonstrations followed 50 days of protests that have rattled po= litical leaders and led commentators and analysts to ask whether a new soci= al movement would transform Israeli domestic politics for the next generati= on. The movement, which has the support of about 90% of the population accordin= g to opinion polls, began when a small group of activists erected tents in = Tel Aviv's prosperous Rothschild Boulevard in protest at high rents and hou= se prices. Tent cities mushroomed across the country and protesters rallied behind the= slogan: "The people demand social justice." Among the issues raised were t= he cost of housing, transport, childcare, food and fuel; the low salaries p= aid to many professionals, including doctors and teachers; tax reform; and = welfare payments. The government established a committee led by the economi= cs professor Manuel Trajtenberg to examine the protesters' demands, which i= s due to report later this month. Demonstrators in Tel Aviv on Saturday night blew whistles and banged drums = as they marched in a carnival atmosphere to a large square for a rally. Res= idents hung banners from balconies and cheered as they passed. "We are the new Israelis," the student leader Itzik Shmuli told the rally. = "And the new Israelis want only one simple thing: to live with dignity in t= his country." He added: "Tonight we make history again. The people are supporting a prote= st started by the young people and, a week after the protest was proclaimed= over, we are on the verge of breaking another record. From now on the gove= rnment knows that at any given moment Israelis can return to the streets an= d must therefore deliver the goods." Daphni Leef, one of the organisers of the original tent protest, said: "Thi= s summer is the great summer of the new Israeli hope born of despair, alien= ation and impossible gaps =85 The Israeli society has reached its red line,= and has gotten up and said: 'No more.' This is the miracle of the summer o= f 2011." Under a homemade banner saying "Walk like an Egyptian", Ruti Hertz, 34, a j= ournalist, said that until this summer people had been privately ashamed of= their inability to make ends meet. "Each person was lonely in their situat= ion, thinking it's my own problem." That had changed with the protests. She said that she and her teacher husband, Roi, were living on the same inc= ome as when they met 10 years ago. "We don't ask for much, just to be able = to finish the month without taking from our parents." Roi's monthly take-home pay of 5,500 shekels (=A3940) went on nursery fees = for their two young daughters, she said. Vered Cohen Nitsan, a primary school teacher from Netanya, said she had joi= ned the march "to protest, to support the people of my country and [because= ] I wish my children will have an easier life in the future". She added: "For years, you think you just have to work harder and struggle.= And now people start to talk to one another and you see it's not your pers= onal problem." At a rally in Haifa, Shahin Nasser, an Israeli-Arab, said: "Today we are ch= anging the rules of the game. No more coexistence based on hummus and fava = beans. What is happening here is true coexistence, when Arabs and Jews marc= h together shoulder to shoulder calling for social justice and peace. We've= had it." The protests have been criticised by some on the left for not paying more a= ttention to the discrimination suffered by Israeli-Arabs, who make up 20% o= f Israel's population, or Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territorie= s. Weekly demonstrations, whose turnout had been steadily building, were suspe= nded for two weeks after an attack by militants near the Egyptian-Israeli b= order in which eight Israelis were killed. Some commentators suggested that= the movement had lost its momentum. Protest organisers said the tent cities would be dismantled but the movemen= t would continue with other actions. Many tent-dwellers had already left as= the Israeli summer holidays ended. ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! 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