Thousands at Israeli Peace Rally

[flpoljunkie]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3234435.stm

Tens of thousands of Israelis have marked the eighth anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin with a peace rally in Tel Aviv. They gathered on the square where the prime minister was gunned down by a Jewish extremist on 4 November 1995.

Rabin's Labour Party comrade Shimon Peres told the crowd that Palestinian leaders wanted to make peace.

Up to 100,000 people gathered on Tel Aviv's Rabin Square for the peace rally, according to one estimate.

Demonstrators, who included campaigners against the troop presence in the Palestinian areas, waved banners in support of the "Geneva initiative", an unofficial plan drafted by Palestinians and Israeli leftists.

Zvi Friedman, one of the rally's organisers, said the turnout was "reassurance of the desire for peace, reassurance for people against violence and reassurance of Rabin's way".

[Paschall]

1. Applause!

These people face the same kind of censorship and trumped up charges of "disloyalty" the US left faces when it dissents.

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