Israel Erupts in Protest, Tens of Thousands Chant "Revolution"
http://www.alternet.org/newsandview...s_of_thousands_chant_"revolution"/#paragraph4
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.
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.
http://www.alternet.org/newsandview...s_of_thousands_chant_"revolution"/#paragraph4
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.
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.
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