Approximately 30,000 protesters marched in Tel Aviv last night, with social justice activists blocking central streets and chants of "Mubarak. Assad. Netanyahu" filling the air.
Tel Aviv police arrested 42 activists, which is an extremely rare number, "if not unprecedented," according to +972 Magazine, which has been closely following the circumstances surrounding the sudden rise of Israel's progressive left.
This (and all) pictures are care of Activestills.org and +972 Magazine.
The protests are part of a larger movement that began as opposition to rising housing prices, and indeed is still centered around that issue, but has spread to other social justice and progressive causes.
These protests are being described as "the greatest challenge PM Netanyahu faces on the home front," and show that the progressive left in Israel has awoken.
Change in Israel may be coming.
Noam Sheizaf offers a good visual description of how, last week, these protests began to foment:
It happened almost overnight: Friday morning a week ago, walking near Habima Square in central Tel Aviv, I saw only a handful of tents, with no more than a few dozen Israelis who answered an internet call for an ongoing protest against rising rent costs. On Saturday evening the tents covered an entire block on Rothschild Boulevard, and protesters threw cottage cheese containers on the Likud HQ on nearby King George Street. ... >>>
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Mashty
by IranMilitaryForum.net on Fri Aug 05, 2011 02:27 PM PDTYou assume too much!
;-)
So what happened? Yesterday they were all Zionists, and now
by Mash Ghasem on Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:08 PM PDTyou support all their efforts? Dearest "Tempest in the Tea Cup" aka IMF, how hypocritical can you get in one life time. You and your ilke are truly MONAFEGHIN # 1, congrats.