Most of the hysterical anti-Bibi verbiage left at the link for those who really want to read such vicious nonsense.
The mother of an kidnapped Israeli soldier played an audio clip of her son addressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from his captivity 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...
at a weekly protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, as hundreds of thousands of people gathered at multiple locations across the country to demonstrate against the government and call for a hostage release-ceasefire deal.
Recall that protest leaders there overestimate crowd sizes by between half and an order of magnitude.
The audio clip of Matan Angrest, roughly 30 seconds in length, was the first public sign of life from him since he was kidnapped from the Nahal Oz military base on the morning of October 7.In the recording, which the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said was recently obtained in Gaza, Angrest used terminology highly likely to have been dictated by his Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...captors, and referred to himself and his fellow hostages as "prisoners."
If it was dictated by Hamas then it has absolutely no value except as proof of life on that day, whenever it was. The words of the message are themselves meaningless, no matter how much they accord with the desires of that portion of the hostage families.
"Netanyahu," he said in the clip, "you must, must do this exchange between the [Paleostinian] prisoners in Israel and the prisoners here. I very much want to see my family and friends, it’s very important. I think you’re capable of it. I trust you."His mother Anat Angrest chose to play the recording at the weekly rally in Tel Aviv to drive home her demand for a deal to secure the release of the 101 hostages still captive in Gaza.
Demonstrations calling for a hostage deal have taken place on a near-weekly basis following the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror onslaught, when thousands of snuffies invaded southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing some 1,200 people, taking 251 hostages and sparking the war with Israel inside the Paleostinian enclave.
The protests surged in numbers at the start of September, following the recovery from a tunnel in southern Gaza of the bodies of six murdered hostages, who autopsies revealed had been shot by their captors just days before Israeli soldiers reached them.
In Tel Aviv last week, the hostage deal rally and the anti-government protest merged for the first time, drawing what organizers claimed was roughly half a million people — making it the largest protest in Israeli history.
Except that they had to merge two causes to achieve whatever the real number was, suggesting that neither anti-Bibi cause was drawing enough on its own.
The two demonstrations merged once more on Saturday, and the joint Tel Aviv rally lasted several hours before dispersing — mostly peacefully — at around 11 p.m.The police said, however, that 15 people had been arrested for disturbing public order after they attempted to block the Ayalon freeway by lighting bonfires in the middle of the road.
Antifa tactics, bought and paid for by rich transnational Progressives with the help of the Biden State Department.
Accompanying the mainstream protest, various left-wing groups were dotted around near the Kaplan-Begin interchange throughout the protest, demanding an end to the IDF’s campaign in the Gaza Strip.A 20-strong group called on Israelis to refuse military service as they waved flags of the far-left Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
movement.
See? Not even hiding it a little anymore…
and hoisted a banner of Hadash, an Arab-Jewish communist party.Arab anyway, with a couple of symbolic Jewish communists to act as fig leaves.
Nearby, a woman wore a sign assailing protesters for ignoring the "criminal killing in the West Bank and Gaza," and a man lay in a pool of mock blood next to a rubber mask of Netanyahu.Lying down in fake blood with a mask — check. Now all they need are the bigger-than-life plaster of Paris puppets.
Toward the end of the evening, young right-wing agitators clashed with some protesters who remained even as the event dispersed. Officers attempted to chase away the band of youths, although no arrests were made as they appeared at the end of the rally to taunt and clash with the few remaining protesters, ripping down posters in their wake.Passing a stand offering free water to protesters, a pair shouted "For leftists it’s with cyanide."
Meanwhile a group of some 20 agitators stole a shirt from an anti-government vendor. Pushed off the main road to Kaplan Street, they then attempted to light the shirt on fire until police forces appeared to once more chase them off.
Along with Angrest and Zangauker, the rally featured speeches from Michal Lobanov, wife of Alex Lobanov, one of the six hostages executed by Hamas two weeks ago; Raz Ben Ami, wife of hostage Ohad Ben Ami who was herself released from captivity in the November ceasefire; friends of hostages Gali and Ziv Berman, identified only as Sapir and Iddo; and, via video message, celebrated educator Adina Bar-Shalom, daughter of the late former chief rabbi and Shas party spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef.
Bar-Shalom, who has publicly criticized her late father’s party for failing to press for a deal, said that she was raised to place human life before all else.
"Anyone who saves a soul from Israel — it’s as though they upheld an entire world,’" she quoted the Talmud. "Do we have to put these values aside?" she asked. "What makes us Jewish?"
And so you are willing to trade the entire population of Israel, all eight million or so including Arabs and other non-Jews, in order to get back about 65 hostages and half as many corpses? Because Hamas has promised to repeat the 10/7 massacre again and again until they conquer all of Israel and move in. How does your unbelievable selfishness fit with the Jewish upbringing that you boast of?
Urging concessions as part of a hostage deal, she implored the government not to "think what will come later. The certainty of now trumps any future worries."Since the future is only a few weeks or months from now, that seems a bit short-sighted. Suicidally short-sighted, not to put too fine a point on it.
Bar-Shalom’s brother Yitzhak Yosef — until recently Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi— has also publicly called for far-reaching concessions to secure the hostages’ immediate release.It sounds like he got the job through nepotism, rather than because of any ability of his own.
As protesters marched to Gay Paree Square in central Jerusalem, small skirmishes broke out between police and protesters, with police pushing the crowd toward the sidewalk and arresting at least one protester for allegedly violating the conditions of their probation.Possibly releasing them after the last round of arrests was also short-sighted.
It is believed that 97 of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 33 confirmed dead by the IDF.Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.