More than 100,000 people rallied in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square Thursday night, in the first national protest calling on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz to resign over the damning Winograd report on the Second Lebanon War.
"Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, you said you worked for us. You are fired!" said the evening's keynote speaker, author Meir Shalev. "Amir Peretz, you said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah would never forget your name. Well, neither will we."
Organizers claim the protest rally was attended by at least 200,000. Police, however, estimate that only some 120,000 attended.
"Olmert and Peretz, we have received confirmation that both of you came to power in the wrong positions," he continued. "You can't handle the position, you failed. Go home." Despite the fact that the rally organizers made great efforts to include protesters from a wide political spectrum, Shalev overstepped the bounds of the rally's consensus, and was booed by many demonstrators.
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