Israel/Palestine

................what do you base it on ?

Now if you had said .." there's no way that that this Israeli government would ever buy into this "........I would agree with you .

Your tarring us all with the same brush .

Which Israeli public ?

We dont count ???????...........

In Tel Aviv, thousands protest Israel’s ‘fascist’ incoming defense minister

2,000 demonstrate against appointment of Liberman; Joint List chairman says only a joint Jewish-Arab effort will topple Netanyahu government

BY TAMAR PILEGGI May 28, 2016

An estimated 2,000 people poured into central Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pick of Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman as Israel’s new defense minister in last week’s coalition shakeup.

Carrying Palestinian and Israeli flags, protesters marched towards the Tel Aviv Likud party headquarters on King George street chanting: “Liberman [is a] racist and a fascist,” and “Liberman is the minister of war.”

Protesters waved banners denouncing extremism, racism, and violence in Israel, as well as signs proclaiming “Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies” and “Israel, Palestine, two states for two peoples.”

The rally, organized by the Joint (Arab) List, the left-wing Meretz party, and the left-wing Peace Now organization, was held under the headline “Building the opposition: A new way for Israel.”

Citing police estimates, Hebrew media reports put the number of demonstrators at around 2,000.

The marchers were joined by leftist members of the Knesset, including Meretz leader Zehava Galon and Joint List chairman Ayman Odeh.

“It’s exciting to see thousands of Jews and Arabs coming together to tell the Netanyahu government that Liberman, its defense minister, is illegitimate,” Galon told the Maariv news website during the march.

“The most racist and corrupt man received the portfolio from Netanyahu for his own political survival. Now we’re telling him: ‘Enough, get the hell out,'” she said.

“We believe that only a joint Jewish-Arab effort can beat this,” Odeh said. “We reject the assumption that all Jews hate Arabs and all Arabs hate Jews. This struggle against racism must be shared one.”

Pointing to nationalist trends, Odeh said his Joint List “is setting up the democratic camp.”

“Liberman wants to damage civil society, the Supreme Court, the [left-wing organization] Breaking the Silence, and specifically the Arab sector.

“We are together in this, Jews and Arabs, and we will overcome him,” Odeh said. “We will present a real alternative that will be able to topple this right-wing government.”

Source : http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-tel-aviv-thousands-protest-israels-fascist-new-defense-minister/