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2025-04-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Ex-Shin Bet chief calls for non-violent revolt at weekly anti-government rally
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| The weekly temper tantrum. |
[IsraelTimes] Thousands gather in Tel Aviv as families of hostages make impassioned plea to return their loved ones ahead of upcoming Memorial Day, slam apathy of coalition lawmakers their fate
Thousands gathered at demonstrations across Israel on Saturday night to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and to call for a deal that would return the remaining 59 hostages and bring an end to the war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
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The main rally against the government took place at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square, where protesters gathered to hear from a number of bigwigs including the former heads of the Shin Bet and Israel Defense Forces, while protesters demanding a hostage deal gathered at the nearby Hostages Square. The rallies then merged on Begin Road, as they do each week.
Hours later, speaking at the more apolitical rally at Hostages Square, former hostage Meirav Tal, who was released as part of a weeklong truce in November 2023, echoed the call of the other hostage families for one final deal to return all the remaining hostages at the same time.
CALLS FOR ’NON-VIOLENT REVOLT’
At the parallel protest in Habima Square, protesters struck a distinctly more political tone, the crowd awash in Israeli flags as they demonstrated against Netanyahu and his government.
Ahead of the speeches, a large screen played a brief history of Ben Gvir, who began his political life as a disciple of bad boy Rabbi Meir Kahane, and an avowed fan of Kahane’s disciple Baruch Goldstein, who murdered 29 Moslem worshipers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron in 1994.
The short film accused Netanyahu of normalizing the Kahanist movement four decades after the High Court blocked it from running for parliament.
Afterward, thousands gathered to listen as former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon called the affidavit submitted by incumbent head Ronen Bar to the High Court against Netanyahu this past week a "pivotal event in our fight for the Jewish-democratic identity of Israel."
If the premier uses the domestic security agency to "carry out surveillance of citizens who wish to protest — the black flag is flown before our eyes," said Ayalon, referring to one of Bar’s accusations against the premier in the document.
In Israeli jurisprudence, a "black flag" is said to fly over orders whose sheer immorality makes them illegal to follow. The phrase was coined by a judge who, in 1957, handed down prison sentences to soldiers who killed 49 civilians in the Arab town of Kafr Qasim for missing a curfew.
"Take to the streets, stop the country," said Ayalon. "Non-violent mostly peaceful civilian revolt is the civic duty of every citizen."
"We are fighting for Israel’s Jewish-democratic identity as formulated by the founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence," he said.
His comments were echoed later by protest leader Shikma Bressler, who told the crowd that "a black flag flies over" all of Netanyahu’s decisions.
Joining the list of former high-ranking officials condemning Netanyahu’s leadership, former IDF chief Dan Halutz accused the premier of continuing the fighting in Gaza simply to keep the government intact.
The war is "unnecessary" and driven by Netanyahu’s coalition partners’ "religious, mystic, messianic delusions that have nothing to do with national security," said Halutz on stage at Habima Square.
"The defendant Benjamin Netanyahu," who is on trial for corruption charges, poses a "clear, present and immediate danger to the state of Israel," he said.
These narcissistic hysterics are obscene. The anti-government demonstrations were not without controversy, and drew the attention of a separate right-wing group of hostage families and Netanyahu himself, who condemned a display set up by protesters of masks bearing his face surrounding a demonstrator wearing faux-bloody bandages lying in the middle of the street.
"This needs to be said in a clear voice. The severed heads, as well as the protests today, have nothing to do with the hostages," the conservative Tikva Forum wrote, in a post shared by Netanyahu’s official X account. "On the contrary, these are people who decided to sacrifice the hostages in an attempt to overthrow the government."
"In a civilized country, there would already be dozens of people arrested for inciting murder. It is unclear where the Shin Bet is when it comes to these clear and dangerous representations of murder," the group wrote, adding that it hopes tensions between Netanyahu and Shin Bet chief Bar "do not affect the Shin Bet’s positions on everything related to the prime minister’s security."
Netanyahu and his political allies have long complained about incitement against him and his family, pointing fingers at the justice system, law enforcement and the attorney general for what they say is unchecked violent mostly peaceful speech by members of the public.
In a separate statement, a spokesperson for Netanyahu’s Likud party called the protest display "madness," and asserted that it "represents incitement to murder the prime minister and behead him."
"Where is the enforcement of the attorney general and Ronen Bar?" the front man asked, attaching a photo of the scene, in which the shirtless, bandaged man clutched an Israeli flag. Surrounding the man’s head were several masks of Netanyahu, each with a sticker bearing a slogan such as "guilty" or "danger." 
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