il Commy
2nd November 2003, 11:06
Yesterday was the annual rally in the memory of Rabin's murder, 200,000 people came.
Rabin was the israeli prime minister who was shot to death by an extreme-right facist activist, after long months of inciting by the facist powers in Israel. Rabin became their target because he was willing to give up the parts of the occupied territories.
The murder accured during an enormous peace rally in Malkey Yisrael square on November 4th '95. Since then the square is called "Rabin Square" and every year there is a big memorial rally, in support for peace and democracy.
This year's rally was the biggest since '96. Maybe it was because a few days ago some people sprayed "Kahane was right" (Rabbi Kahane = leader of Kach that wanted to kill all arabs) all over the Rabin monument. People in the rally held signs and stickers saying "to get out of the [occupied] territories - for Israel", "refusal is Zionism", "yes to Geneva accords", "no democracy without equality" etc.
I don't support Rabin's way and I don't support the "peace" he brought, Oslo was just supposed to exploit the palestinian workers with a patronage state. But I oppose facism and I prefer bourgeois democracy instead of it, because it gives the workers some rights. And most of the people in the rally believe that what Rabin brought is peace and the end of bloodshed, so they support it. That's why I went to this rally yesterday. That's why I don't like the face that my party Hadash had such a low attendance. All the people that came should have heard the class voice, for a true socialist peace and not just fake zionist peace of Peace Now, Meretz or The Labor. And the cry "Facism will not pass!", which the party stands so much for it, should have been heard in alot bigger voice than a few guys from the Tel Aviv branch. Especially after last week's attempt to murder Isaam Makhoul, one of the party leader's.
Rabin was the israeli prime minister who was shot to death by an extreme-right facist activist, after long months of inciting by the facist powers in Israel. Rabin became their target because he was willing to give up the parts of the occupied territories.
The murder accured during an enormous peace rally in Malkey Yisrael square on November 4th '95. Since then the square is called "Rabin Square" and every year there is a big memorial rally, in support for peace and democracy.
This year's rally was the biggest since '96. Maybe it was because a few days ago some people sprayed "Kahane was right" (Rabbi Kahane = leader of Kach that wanted to kill all arabs) all over the Rabin monument. People in the rally held signs and stickers saying "to get out of the [occupied] territories - for Israel", "refusal is Zionism", "yes to Geneva accords", "no democracy without equality" etc.
I don't support Rabin's way and I don't support the "peace" he brought, Oslo was just supposed to exploit the palestinian workers with a patronage state. But I oppose facism and I prefer bourgeois democracy instead of it, because it gives the workers some rights. And most of the people in the rally believe that what Rabin brought is peace and the end of bloodshed, so they support it. That's why I went to this rally yesterday. That's why I don't like the face that my party Hadash had such a low attendance. All the people that came should have heard the class voice, for a true socialist peace and not just fake zionist peace of Peace Now, Meretz or The Labor. And the cry "Facism will not pass!", which the party stands so much for it, should have been heard in alot bigger voice than a few guys from the Tel Aviv branch. Especially after last week's attempt to murder Isaam Makhoul, one of the party leader's.