Knesset Member Haim Oron of Meretz told the demonstrators: "We must remove the mask and say that there is a Syrian partner and a Palestinian partner for peace. They are Abu-Mazen and Hafez al-Assad. There is an Arab partner, which is the Arab League. There is an international Partner. What there isn't is an Israeli partner."

The demonstrators read out loud the "real" speech that Minister Barak would have delivered at the rally, saying, "I, Ehud Barak, commit to advance real peace - - between the parties of (Avigdor) Lieberman and Shas, to provide for the welfare of every settler, to establish a university in the settlement of Ariel, to pledge allegiance to the right-wing coalition and to the destruction of the left."

New Israel Fund Chair Naomi Chazan, who has been severely attacked by right wing extremists, told the demonstrators: "The government has declared war on human rights groups in Israel...They want a docile, silent society, they dream of an Israel without a High Court of Justice and without B'Tselem, without peace activists and social justice advocates." She addressed the Prime Minister and warned: "Beware, Bibi, lest on your watch Israeli democracy will collapse."

Knesset Member Eitan Kabel of Labor chastise his fellow party members, who refuse to quit the coalition. "You are the fig leaf that covers the shame of this government," he said. Kabel lamented, "These are days in which our Israel is perceived as a country that rejects peace, rejects negotiations and rejects hope."

The demonstration ended with a performance of System Ali, a hip-hop band from Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood, a band comprised of Jews and Arabs, veteran Israelis and recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union, who sang in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian and English.