|
2023-04-30 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
|
|
Masses rally against prospect of fresh overhaul push, as Knesset about to reconvene
|
[IsraelTimes] Protests held nationwide for 17th weekend, with 200,000 estimated in Tel Aviv; organizers announce day of ’equality’ demonstrations Thursday.
| The sub rosa war of the Biden administration against Bibi Netanyahu continues, determined as they are to get their money’s worth from their payments to far left Israeli “activists”, Movement for Quality Government (MQG). MQG is the current name of Antifa’s branch in Israel for driving Bibi Netanyahu and his supporters out of politics, the most recent iteration of the Washington, DC-headquartered anti-democratic OneVoice Movement that’s been trying to remake Israel in its own image since 2092. |
Protesters rallied across Israel Saturday evening as part of ongoing demonstrations against the government’s contentious judicial overhaul, with the Knesset set to reopen for its summer session on Sunday, raising the possibility of a renewed push to pass the explosive bills to radically curtail the judiciary.
Israeli company Crowd Solutions estimated that around 200,000 people were gathered at the main protest in Tel Aviv, Channel 13 news reported. Another 30,000 were estimated to be gathered in Haifa, 18,000 in Kfar Saba and 16,000 in Netanya, the company said. Rallies were held in dozens of other locations around the country. Organizers claimed 430,000 participants nationwide.
Continued from Page 1
At the main rally on Kaplan Street, demonstrators announced that they would ramp up protest activities on Thursday, marking it as "national equality day."
"On that day, the protest movement will fight for equality in service of the state and in economic contribution, and for all those who are financially harmed by the government’s actions," the organizers said, referring to plans by the government to exempt all ultra-Orthodox men from mandatory military service.
"The days in which one side serves the state and also finances the yeshivas, while [the government] tries to establish a halachic (religious law) dictatorship here, are over," the protest movement added.
A short video address by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is also the president of the Socialist International organization, was screened at the rally.
"Dear Israeli friends, we as Socialist International have always fought for freedom, equality, justice and democracy. Yet as many of you already know, these are values that we cannot take for granted and that we have to promote and defend on a daily basis," Sanchez said.
"As such, now, as always, the Socialist Internationalist stands in solidarity with the people of Israel. Dear friends, you will always find us in the fight for democracy," he added.
Goody — elected Communists. Amid the rally in Tel Aviv, police said officers detained five people for attempting to enter the Ayalon Highway and block traffic.
Other rallies were taking place at around 150 locations around the country.
About a hundred anti-occupation screeching muppets claimed corners of the Tel Aviv protest, waving Paleostinian flags and signs in Hebrew, Arabic and English. Among the group was 92-year-old Dafna Kaminer, who arrived in a wheelchair with a care worker to protest. "It’s important to me, that I can still do something," she said.
Of course there’s an ancient Black Bloc-er, reliving her glory days.Kaminer waved off criticism that integrating anti-occupation stances within the anti-overhaul protest pushes away some Israelis who otherwise would have supported the protest and confuses the message.
"The occupation is even more important" than the current judicial debate, she said. "We’ve got to get rid of it someday."
Holding signs with "Fuck the patriarchy" and "Fucking politics and gender roles," a self-organized group of 12 and 13-year-old girls staged their own protest amid the crowd on Kaplan Street. Alma, 13, said she was protesting because "I’m sick of what’s going on in the country and had to do something about it."
"I want to have choices as a woman," she said, alluding to fears that a weakened Supreme Court would no longer protect gender equality in the face of religious coalition parties. "I don’t want to live like that," Alma added.
Saturday’s demonstrations, held for the 17th weekend in a row, came after a week that saw large rallies from both opponents and proponents of the overhaul.
On Thursday, some 200,000 supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right government packed the streets around the Knesset in Jerusalem, staging their largest rally yet aimed at providing the coalition with public support for its plans, in light of widespread opposition at home and abroad.
At that rally, Levin declared that the "the nation voted for a judicial reform" and that the coalition was puit in power "to correct the injustice."
"No more inequality, no more one-sided judicial system, no more court whose judges are above the Knesset and above the government," he declared, employing longstanding talking points of the pro-overhaul camp, and downplaying opinion polls that have consistently shown a collapse in support for current coalition parties.
During his speech, the crowds booed at each mention of the Supreme Court.
In his speech Saturday, Gantz said: "We respected the right to demonstrate of those who think the reform is right, but in no way did we respect the words of incitement and lies and the shameful conduct of trampling on pictures of judges."
Gantz on Friday slammed Levin’s speech on Thursday, saying the remarks called into question the coalition’s commitment to reaching a consensus on judicial reform as part of the ongoing negotiations.
Saturday’s protest organizers also slammed the "severe incitement" on display at Thursday’s Jerusalem rally, which they said "included the shocking scenes of [posters of] the Supreme Court judges being trampled on, is reminiscent of regime demonstrations by the ayatollahs in Iran," protest leaders said, apparently referring to Iranian rallies which often feature Israeli and American flags being trampled on.
Last month, after facing massive pushback, Netanyahu agreed to temporarily pause the overhaul to allow time for negotiations with opponents of the legislation.
During the recess, coalition and opposition representatives have been meeting at the President’s Residence to discuss the possibility of a negotiated change to judicial power lines. No tangible progress has been reported to date.
|
Posted by trailing wife 2023-04-30 07:04||
||
Front Page|| [24 views ]
Top
File under: Antifa/BLM
|
|
Posted by Papa Cookie 2023-04-30 11:42||
2023-04-30 11:42||
Front Page
Top
|
|
Posted by Papa Cookie 2023-04-30 11:59||
2023-04-30 11:59||
Front Page
Top
|
|
Posted by trailing wife 2023-04-30 18:33||
2023-04-30 18:33||
Front Page
Top
|
|
07:46 Procopius2k
07:44 Procopius2k
07:44 DooDahMan
07:41 Procopius2k
07:37 Procopius2k
07:32 Procopius2k
07:31 Procopius2k
07:23 Cesare
07:13 Besoeker
07:11 DooDahMan
07:10 DooDahMan
07:06 Elmerert Hupens2660
06:57 Elmerert Hupens2660
06:51 Mullah Richard
06:49 Airandee
06:48 MikeKozlowski
06:35 Grom the Reflective
06:34 Grom the Reflective
06:30 junkiron
06:29 Mullah Richard
06:26 Mullah Richard
05:56 Besoeker
05:48 Grom the Reflective
05:40 Jineng Clusong2496
|
