Tomorrow's protest in Tel Aviv. Why? "Because still it is possible". I am all for young people to protest, but this "Emergency Demonstration in favour of Democracy" seems rather unfocused to me. They protest because they still can. Good reason. My daughter the leftist will be there. It will be raining.
Since those May 1st monster demonstrations in Budapest ("Eljen Rakosi!"), I always loved mass demonstrations. We demonstrated in front of the statue of Stalin and then in front of an elevated podium in the Hosok Ter (The Heroes Plaza, which is still there, with the statues of ferocius Magyar leaders on horse). I am sure fifty years from now North Koreans will remember with affection those demonstrations in honor of Kim Il Jong.
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What I find funny about this demonstration is that the demonstrators seem to have mixed up in their head all the events of the past few months.
There were racist rabbis who signed a petition not to rent apartments to Arabs, and the people of South Tel Aviv are angry at the presence of sainted non-white Africans, and Lieberman, a government minister, wants to investigate the human rights organizations.
Somehow it all comes together in the demonstrators' head as the notion that the government is now "racist" and "undemocratic". Time for a protest!
It is protest for protest sake.
Young people likes to meet and do something exciting and "rebellious".
The message is: "You obsolete vetust people in power, go home and die because our time has arrived and now we want to rule!"
The future leaders of Israel will meet tomorrow in Tel Aviv streets.
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