{"id":13,"date":"2006-07-28T21:08:40","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T18:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/index.php\/2006\/07\/28\/rabin-square-thursday-evening\/"},"modified":"2006-07-28T21:08:40","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T18:08:40","slug":"rabin-square-thursday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/2006\/07\/28\/rabin-square-thursday-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabin Square, Thursday Evening."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabin square is a special place for me, It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the place of my first adult cry, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the place where allsomany good things happened, and all so many bad things remained. In Israel Rabin Square is mostly a place to protest, a place to say something. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big concrete square, with almost no vegetation or green areas, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also not a square, since it has traffic lights all over. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a place, Just next to the city council of Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday i got an email from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Peace Now\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, which is the organization that was established around 1982 to protest against the war in Lebanon, and organized the 400,000 people rally against the war back then. It was an invitation to a Hyde-Park event at Rabin Square (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/jonklinger\/tags\/20060727\/\">pictures<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I thought i just had to attend and see, for myself, what is going on and who is against who here.  When i got there i realised what i was doing, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to look beyond the people and understand their wills, But i couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.<\/p>\n<p>There were 30 people there, mostly extreme left which called to remove violence at all cost. They all had the result: they wanted the disarmament of Hizbullah and the evacuation of Israeli forces from lebanon. (Duh&#8230;) But non of them offered a pragmatic approach.  What shocked me the most was the fact that though they spoke, no one but them wanted to listen (and note that i\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still using the US:Them, as i still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel a part of them). Several times people came and called them traitors, and the others came to listen. But&#8230; Nothing real happened there,  it was the same people from the left wing organizations explaining to themselves why war is bad.<\/p>\n<p>They were too busy talking about the lebanese refugees, that they forgot that Israel has 500,000 refugees as well. They were thinking about everything but Israel, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the way to make peace, i guess.  Now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m feeling worse, as i am criticising the criticisers without actually having something to say.  So here goes: If they want to change, they have to change the public opinion by a reasonable solution. What is that reasonable solution? I think that the establishment of a united peace force, that will be with Israeli and Lebanese soldiers, amongst others, may help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/jonklinger\/tags\/20060727\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/77\/200217722_c5ddac8873.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabin square is a special place for me, It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the place of my first adult cry, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the place where allsomany good things happened, and all so many bad things remained. In Israel Rabin Square is mostly a place to protest, a place to say something. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big concrete square, with almost no vegetation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}