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Hundreds rally in Tel Aviv to call for immediate elections, return of all hostage; Bibi sez will not resign or stop war
Before October 7, the crowds screaming for Bibi to be defenestrated measured in hundreds of thousands, not mere hundreds. [IsraelTimes] Amid a somber atmosphere, hundreds of people turn up to a protest at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square to demand immediate elections and “a better Israel” in the words of one speaker.A central exhibition at Habima Square commemorates the victims of the October 7 atrocities and states, “Not in vain, we promise.” Protestors demanding the return of all the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza hold up banners urging the government not to abandon those who were not freed in the hostage deal last month. Close by, a protest is held demanding an end to the war against Hamas and Israel’s military control over the West Bank. “This is our life with Netanyahu in power. Catastrophe after catastrophe after catastrophe,” chant demonstrators. We can’t win this war’: Tel Aviv protester calls for end to Gaza op, new elections Go sit on the sidelines and watch while those who disagree win the war, and then the election. [IsraelTimes] Rotem Telem, a Tel Aviv resident, says she came to the protest at Habima Square out of a profound sense of "despair and fear" over the situation in the country, specifically the ongoing deaths of Israelis soldiers and Paleostinian civilians in 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 an 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 oppressionand disproportionate response... amid the war against Hamas  ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,..."People on both sides are dying for no purpose. I’m afraid they’re telling us we’re winning a war which we lost on October 7," says Telem despondently. "We can’t win this war. You can’t change paradigms with war. Children dying is not a policy," she continues. Telem says she wants immediate elections to be held and insists that holding an election campaign despite the ongoing war is possible, but says she doesn’t actually support any of the likely candidates. "Gantz isn’t a solution, Lapid is too right-wing, but they would at least be able to renew the proper functioning of government departments which have been gutted by Netanyahu, and restore the state so we can continue onwards," she says. Ruling out resigning, PM says he’s made Israel stronger; is cautious on hostage deal [IsraelTimes] Netanyahu: War against Hamas will last many more months, Gaza-Egypt border must be ‘in our hands’ to ensure demilitarization; warns Hezbollah, and Iran, against escalating in north Posted by: trailing wife 2023-12-31 |
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