Massive demonstration in Tel Aviv calling on Netanyahu to get ceasefire deal done

[Dennis Donovan]

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Republicans against Trump
Happening now: massive demonstration in Tel Aviv calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to immediately get a hostage release-ceasefire deal done.


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[Lonestarblue]

1. I hope they demand his resignation. He is clearly not working to free the hostages.

[ShazzieB]

10. I wish they would do that.

I don't really understand how parliamentary governments work, especially the process of getting rid of a prime minister and replacing them with a new one. I keep meaning to read up on it, but never seem to get to it.

I'm used to the idea of electing a leader for a specific length of time and knowing when his term is going to be over. The parliamentary system confuses me.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Bibi needs to go

A large percentage of American Jews want to see Bibi removed. I applaud these protests

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[Bucky]

5. He's kept this war going for months longer than was needed because it helped him politically

[B.See]

8. I suspect

Trump probably asked him to. Would explain why Trump is trying to pin recent hostage killings on Kamala, instead of HIMSELF.

[dchill]

11. Holy SHIT!

I'm guessing that's Israel's "Radical Left".

[MacKasey]

3. Israelis need to stay in the street until BB is gone

That's the only way they're going to get rid of him

[Bucky]

4. kick't

Delightful.

Israel has a right to defend its... democracy and its rejection of Netanyahu's psychotic jingoism

[orwell]

6. I'm sure he cares what the people think...

...I'm sure...

[leftieNanner]

7. Trump probably told him

NOT to do a deal. Don't help the Biden administration with a win.

Bibi faces legal problems if he's out of power.

[rubbersole]

9. He can join tsf in Venezuela.

[moniss]

12. He has ramped up the

attacks in the West Bank and used much of the same tactics as in Gaza. They just got done destroying most of the water and sewer infrastructure in Jenin and ripping up most of the roads. Doctors Without Borders report one of their people was dragged away and beaten and that hospital services have been cut and ambulances prevented from trying to get to the wounded. Same old same old.

Jenin was one of the first main camps for Palestinians chased out during the Nakba in 1948. The camp still is home to descendants of those people who have claims to land and property taken from them. It has been a major symbol of Palestinian resistance for 76 years. Since 10/7 nearly 1,000 West Bank Palestinians have been killed by the IDF and by settlers. Over 10,000 have been newly imprisoned. The actions in the West Bank are the largest in nearly 20 years and the recent settlement expansion announcement by the Likud government is one of the largest since the 1967 war.

The Likud party and the extreme right wing parties in the ruling coalition have made open provocation more or less a policy and rallying cry by doing things like calling for a synagogue to be built at Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The area is governed by a trust that is run by Jordan and prayer by non-Muslims is restricted to certain areas, like the old Western Wall, according to the 1994 Jordanian/Israeli peace agreement. The radical right ministers in the government have been encouraging open violation of that agreement. Which of course calls into question the larger issue of the stability of the Jordanian/Israeli agreement and whether the provocations by the radical right are a precursor to a long held and stated desire to expand east beyond the West Bank and make claims on areas of the East Bank etc. more usually known as Transjordan. These claims as the right presents them date back to the time of Moses etc.