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Tens of thousands are expected to take to streets in a rally seeking change in Israel’s leadership on Saturday night.
Former GOC Northern Command and deputy Mossad chief Amiram Levin is among the speakers at “Israel Wants Change,” and former Mossad chief Meir Dagan announced last week that he will also speak. Michal Kesten-Keidar – the widow of Col. Dolev Keidar, who was killed in last summer’s war in Gaza – will also address the rally in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, Israeli daily, Haaretz reported on Friday.
The rally, commencing at 7:30 P.M., is organized by the One Million Hands movement. It is expected to draw people from the center and left of the political map who are seeking a change in the Zionist entity’s priorities, refocusing on health, education, housing, wages, the cost of living and the elderly.
The organizers and key speakers say the rally will be about expressing support for a return to a way of life that is normal and sane, to a life with “peace between Israel and its neighbors,” according to Haaretz.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been under heavy criticism by several Israeli officials.
Levin, who was one of Netanyahu’s commanders in the Israel Defense Forces, slammed the Israeli leader over his speech at the Congress.
“When the prime minister is in the United States he is the leader of all of us, but the little that he said in Congress would have better been said privately in the Oval Office – then there might have been a chance to exert influence,” Levin said.
Dagan also criticized Netanyahu. “As someone who has served the country for 45 years in security posts, including during some of its hardest hours, I feel we are at a critical period for our future and security.”
“I have no personal interest in the prime minister, his wife, his expenses and his way of life. I am talking about the policy he leads. It is a destructive policy for the future and security of Israel,” he said, adding that he feels “there is a danger to the continued existence of this dream, and that is why I will come to speak.”
Source: Al-Manar
