[Nettime-bold] Protests in Israel

[Gita Hashemi <gita@yorku.ca>]

Title: Protests in Israel

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/04/07/MN144368.DTL

Tel Aviv -- More than 20,000 Jews and Israeli Arabs marched together here

last night demanding that the government withdraw from the West Bank and

immediately resume peace talks with the Palestinians. "There is a black

flag waving over this war. We must get out of the territories and return

to the 1967 borders. (Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon wants to take us back

to the 1967 war," said Zahava Gal-On, a lawmaker from the leftist Meretz

party whose speech was greeted with wide applause and cheering. Hundreds

of Israeli Arabs came out in force for the first time in many months,

marching alongside Jewish Israelis and chanting, "Yalla, yalla, Sharon get

out of Ramallah." Yalla means "come" in both Hebrew and Arabic. "