Last night I attended the protest outside the Habima in Tel Aviv. We are still at war, and these demonstrations have only recently restarted. Even so, there were about 20,000 people who attended. Many many thousands more demonstrated outside Bibi's house in Caesarea. 20,000 people - Israelis, stood silent for at least a minute in honour of those who have been massacred, murdered, raped, taken hostage, killed and wounded in the line of duty. 20,000 sombre people calling for elections to be held now. We do not want the messianic, self serving, narcisssistic, egotistical people who do not have anyone's interests, but their own, for even a minute longer. It is because of them and their divisive corrupt 'leadership' that we are in this tragedy. We want the country to return to the moral standards and ethical standards we worked for, and died for. The people who spoke were those from the Otef (the kibbutzim and settlements near Gaza) - people whose children, parents, grandparents, babies, were slaughtered. People whose loved ones were taken hostages. People who were hostages that were killed in error by the Israeli Defence Forces. Mothers of soldiers who are fighting now.
And then we walked to the Hostage Square to hear sisters, parents, friends, speak. 106 days; Today 107, tomorrow 108 - we can count. Please let the counting stop.
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Nesta praying for your safety and praying for peace!
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