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| Anti-overhaul protesters call to turn up heat as over 300,000 claimed at rallies |
| 2023-03-12 |
| [IsraelTimes] Organizers claim half a million attend weekly protests, plan ’day of escalating resistance’ on Thursday; coalition scheduled to drive contentious bills through Knesset committee Organized by the anti-democracy Movement for Quality Government, Antifa’s branch in Israel for driving Bibi Netanyahu and his supporters out of politics. It was previously known as V15 (for Victory 15, the last election Bibi won against the will of a Democratic president), both names being fig leaves for its true identity as the Israeli branch of the Washington, DC-based OneVoice Movement founded by Progressive multi-billionaire Daniel Lubetzky in 2002 as an international “grassroots” front of his PeaceWorks Foundation to drive Israel to fulfill his vision for the region without bothering to become a citizen. The US State Department gave V15 millions of dollars under President Obama, and more in recent years. More than 300,000 Israelis rallied Saturday night across the country in the tenth consecutive week of demonstrations against the government’s efforts to radically overhaul the judicial system. Organizers claimed around half a million turned out for the protests nationwide. Media estimated there were at least 200,000 in Tel Aviv alone.Interesting that the Times if Israel journalist does not offer estimates from government specialists, often enough as much as an order of magnitude less than the maximalist assumptions of enthusiasts. The protests were held as the coalition readies to charge full steam ahead from Sunday with its highly contentious remaking of the judiciary, thus far rejecting pleas, including from the president, to scrap its current legislation and instead patiently negotiate a more widely accepted compromise.Organizers said they would further ramp up their response if the government doesn’t shelve the overhaul legislation, with a planned "day of escalating resistance" declared for Thursday. |
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