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‘We Are All United’
Israel Protests Could Boost Peace Process…protest leaders, anxious to include everyone, have not addressed these issues so far. “We cannot resolve the conflict with the Palestinians without fixing our internal problems, between religious and secular Jews, and between Jews and Arabs,” says Shafir, the protest organizer. “We don’t talk to each other; we just demonstrate against each other. But that’s changing now.” >continue<
I really love this. It’s as if the whole world around us has woken up and started fighting.
Israeli sign: “Women before profits” July 24th 2011
These protests, which began as explicit anger at the rising rental prices in cities across the country, have been fueled by the response of Netanyahu’s government, which initially, with hostile rhetoric, dismissed them as being part of a large, leftwing movement being funded by outfits such as the New Israel Fund. The initial rhetoric, which claimed that the protests were not about anything other than the “Zionist Left’s” political agenda, only served to increase protesters’ anger and resolve.
These reactions from Netanyahu and other government officials have served to broaden the protests, which have now moved from rent prices to a host of social justice issues: women’s rights, union rights and education reform, among other things, with general chants of “revolution” heard on the streets last night.
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Golan Heights: 44 years after Six-Day War, violence erupts anew
“Anyone who tries to cross the border will be killed.” That was the message Israeli soldiers had today, the anniversary of the day when Golan Heights fell from Syrian hands to Israeli ones. Today, dozens of protesters, mostly Palestinian, went up to the border of the strategically-important piece of land — and were fired upon by Israeli soldiers. At least 14 died, and hundreds were injured during the protests. Prior to the violence, Benjamin Netanyahu told Israeli soldiers to act with restraint but determination while protecting the border. “To my regret, today there are extremists around us trying to breach our borders, and threaten our towns and citizens,” he said to his cabinet. “We will not allow this.” source
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