This Saturday, a march organized by various peace groups and political parties of Israel including Kadima, Hadash, Labor and Meretz delivered 25,000 people in the streets of Central Tel Aviv in support of the establishment of a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders.
One need not understand Hebrew nor Arabic to appreciate the video shown. The posters are worth a thousand words, especially the one showing President Barack Obama, and the words yes we 'ken' (ken means yes in Hebrew). Other posters in red show the year 1967 with either Hebrew or Arabic text under the year. Today, the pro-peace lobby group JStreet is jumping on the bandwagon, and offering a free Obama poster in the original English/Hebrew to all who support the US president's vision of a two-state solution.
To Claim your free poster, click here.
This show of support in Israel doesn't come a moment too soon. Especially as critics and detractors of the President's message distort the facts, in what they imagine to be unconditional support of Prime Minister's Netanyahu and his position.
Some marchers held signs reading 'Palestinian State -- An Israeli Interest,' 'Bibi, Recognize the Palestinians,' and Other signs said, 'Yes to Peace' and 'Jews and Arabs Refuse to Be Enemies.' The demonstrators also carried Palestinian, Israeli, and red flags. Included in the march were former and current Knesset members: MKs Muhammad Barake (Hadash), Afu Agbaria (Hadash), Hanna Sweid (Hadash), Ilan Gilon (Meretz), and Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz); former MKs Issam Makhoul (Hadash), Tamar Gozansky (Hadash), Haim Oron (Meretz), and the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Israel, Muhammad Nafa'h.
An 80-year old woman, Professor Yenina Altman, came from Haifa to attend the rally. She said: 'It's important for me to express the desire to see the Palestinians independent. I came from Poland after my entire family perished. I had been in a ghetto and a concentration camp. I would like to have my country show respect for the Palestinians and recognize their right to an independent state just as we desired for ourselves.'
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