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On Saturday night June 4, the evening beforeJune 5, we marked for the 44th time theanniversary of the Occupation. But at least weare now not anymore alone with the idea as towhat the solution should look like. The

demonstration was rather than looking back to1967 anticipating the Palestinian request for UN recognition inSeptember.

A wide coalition had been set up in preparation, including not only theHadash Communists and Meretz but also the Labor Party and a factionof Kadima. There had been much debate on the main slogan in the adscalling for participation, with the text finally adopted reading "Bibi hadsaid No We say Yes to a Palestinian State". Many activists felt thatthis obscured the issue of the borders, which are the main bone ofcontention. Gush Shalom prepared in advance numerous signs reading

""Yes to a Palestinian State in the 1967 Borders" and at the gatheringpoint on the Rabin Square they were eagerly taken up.

The marchers estimated at between ten and twenty thousand - had allkinds of political and personal backgrounds young people born yearsafter the occupation began, and grizzled grey- and white-hairedveterans, and many family groups of parents and children. (One had abig dog carrying the Peace Now poster with Netanyahu as the PiedPiper leading the people to disaster). The red flags of Hadash mingledwith the colour green of Meretz, with the Gush Shalom two-flag signs,and the Peace Now peace flag modeled on the Israeli national flag, andthe national flag itself, and also some activists expressed the common

slogan by simply walking with a Palestinian flag.

Crisscrossing through the streets of central Tel Aviv, a medley ofslogans was chanted some decades old, others newly-created: "One,Two, Three, Four Occupation no more" / "Palestine will be free withor without the USA!" / "Dismantle Kiryat Arba, Dismantle AllSettlements, Now, Now, Now" / "Peace Yes- Occupation No" / "Bordersof 1967 permanent borders of peace" / "Netanyahu, are you crazy?We dont want another war".

There were quite a few signs and chanted slogans referring to theupheaval in the Arab World; "Yes to the Arab Democratic Revolution!" /"Emulate the Egyptians, revolt against racist and settlers". Netanyahu'snotorious Foreign Minister came under fire :"Lieberman is a settler anda racist" and some marchers expressed a longing for Israel's FoundingFather "Where is the new Ben Gurion with a courage to take historicdecisions?". The well-known song "I have no other country" was sungby several marching groups ("Even if my country has changed her face,even when ground burns under my feet, I will not give up this is myhome!). Others took up John Lennon's "Give peace a chance".Obama's elections slogan was chanted with a play of words "Yes weKen!" "Ken" being "Yes" in Hebrew. The Meretz stickers and signs

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Finally, after winding through many streets of central Tel Aviv, themarch ended with a rally at the Tel Aviv Museum. There was quite a bitof unanimity between the speakers among them Knesset MembersZahava Galon (Meretz), Dov Khenin (Hadash), Daniel Ben-Simon(Labor), Nino Abesadze (Kadima) the last an immigrant from theformer Soviet Union (specifically, from Georgia) who made part of her

speech in Russian. Non-parliamentary speakers included playwrightYehoshua Sobol, Aida Touma-Sliman, editor of the Arab Al Ittihad dailyand Feminist activist, Nazareth Mayor Ramez Jeraisy and Liran Gal ofPeace Now, the youngest of the speakers.

Virutally all speakers welcomed the upcoming UN recognition ofPalestine by the United Nations and denounced Netanyahu's speech atthe US Congress as having set up huge barriers and effectively endedthe chances for negotiations. Also, many of the speeches includedwarnings of Netanyahu trying to break out of his predicament by startinga new war, with Iran, with speakers referring to the dire warnings madeon this issue by Me'ir Dagan, the recently retired Head of the Mossad."There is no mandate for a new war of choice, there will be no nationalunity behind a government which drags us into disaster instead ofmaking peace" cried KM Galon, to prolonged applause.

A grim foretast of the looming wars came within less then 24 hours -with deadly fire of IDF snipers at unarmed Palestinan demonstratorsapproaching by the hundreds from Syria.

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