On Saturday night hundreds of Peace Now activists will converge in Tel Aviv to make an important statement: Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak may talk a lot about peace, but -- when it comes to actions -- they are implementing an anti-peace agenda.
The clearest example of the gap between their rhetoric and their
actions is on settlements. On Monday Peace Now revealed that
construction violating the terms of the settlements freeze is ongoing
in more than a quarter of West Bank settlements.
Israelis increasingly understand that their government is leading away from peace and towards war. This demonstration is the start of a Peace Now campaign to galvanize the public. It will deliver a message to our leaders that if they fail to make real strides towards peace, then they will face an angry electorate.
To reinforce the message that Netanyahu and Barak are not as pro-peace as they claim to be -- and in honor of the upcoming Purim holiday -- the demonstrators tomorrow will wear masks of either Netanyahu or Barak.
Click here to learn more about this demonstration.
Israelis increasingly understand that their government is leading away from peace and towards war. This demonstration is the start of a Peace Now campaign to galvanize the public. It will deliver a message to our leaders that if they fail to make real strides towards peace, then they will face an angry electorate.
To reinforce the message that Netanyahu and Barak are not as pro-peace as they claim to be -- and in honor of the upcoming Purim holiday -- the demonstrators tomorrow will wear masks of either Netanyahu or Barak.
Click here to learn more about this demonstration.
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It is important to realize that the political parties and movements that were responsible for and supported the Oslo Agreements fiasco have been discredited in the eyes of the large majority of the Israeli population. In 1992, the Rabin was elected Prime Minister and set out on the disaster that was to become Oslo. The Labor and MERETZ parties that identified themselves with Oslo had 56 seats in the Knessets. Add to them the 6 seats then held by the Arab parties and there was an absolute majority, and they were able to ram Oslo through the Knesset without any real national mandate. Today the two parties have 16 seats.
It is important to realize that Netanyahu has a strong national concensus behind him. This concensus said that the Arabs have NOT proven they are willing to live in peace with Israel and are NOT willing to reach a compromise peace agreement with Israel. This concensus also recognizes Jewish rights to settle in Judea/Samaria, even if part of the Jewish population of Israel is willing to give these territories up for TRUE peace, but not the phony "cease fire" that Arafat agreed to with the original Oslo Agreements. Sharon's disastrous destruction of Gush Katif and the expulsion of the Jewish population which led to HAMAS taking over there, indiscriminate rocket fire into Israel, finally giving us the Gaza War which has led to unprecedented condemnation of Israel BY JEWS and others has proven that "taking risks for peace" had led from one disaster to another.
So "Peace Now" can have their demonstrations. They don't represent anything but the very fringes of Israeli society.