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submitted 4 months ago by streetfestival@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

1:21 video shows the scale of the protest.

Shulamit Ron, Demonstrator: "We hope the world hears us: the people of Israel are not the government of Israel. We don't agree with the policy; we don't agree with the way they behave; and we want to have a different future."

Roi Tzohar, Demonstrator: "The Israeli people are hostages to their right-wing government. The people of Gaza are hostages to Hamas. And, basically, there has to be a way to overcome that and to stop the fighting and the killing. This [demonstration?] is to give everybody hope."

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[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 115 points 4 months ago

It’s a relief to hear that Israeli citizens are against what their government is doing.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 53 points 4 months ago

Netanyahu has never been very popular. He's just good at making backroom deals. Remember that Israel has a bunch of political parties, so it's always about coalitions and he's been really good at getting everyone in the right-wing parties on his side. Now he's working on putting laws in place that will make him dictator for life.

And you don't have to believe me on that last part, ask his former best friend: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-798324

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

They have been for a while. There were huge protests all last year. For that matter there were protests in Palestine last summer against Hamas. Frankly this entire war was very good for both Netanyahu and Hamas.

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