Hundreds of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest against a possible unilateral Israeli military strike on Iran, as more Israeli citizens begin to reach out to Iranians.
The protest sprung up independently after a Facebook campaign by Israelis aimed at peacefully engaging Iranians went viral. A doctoral student from Tel Aviv posted a photo of herself and her cat on Facebook, with a sign in Farsi reading: “We love you, people of Iran.” Another Israeli posted a photo of himself and his daughter with a poster reading, “Iranians, we will never bomb your country, we [heart] you.”
It wasn’t long before the movement caught on and Iranians on Facebook began to respond in kind.
Apart from the Facebook activism that seems to have started this campaign, “Israelis mounted an art exhibit in Tel Aviv centered on Iran, built a website in Farsi with news of Israeli daily life, and protested Saturday against a potential strike on Iranian nuclear installations,” the Associated Press reports.
The U.S. has become increasingly bellicose towards Iran, heaping crippling economic sanctions and hurling rhetoric at Tehran. U.S. and Israeli intelligence agree that Iran is far off from having nuclear weapons, but while the Obama administration is decidedly against an attack now, Israel has warned that a unilateral strike may be imminent, despite the intelligence consensus.
It is good to know that people have heart and understand that if there is a war with Iran there is not going to be much left of Middle east, so is the case with the Iranian people. So is not the people that are against each other, it is Zionism and vulture capitalism with its militarism system which have everything against people everywhere. It is them who wants to divide people by their ethnics and religion, not the people, it is them who wants to rule the world with their militarism talking about democracy. I wonder if Hillary Clinton is up for this, or she still talking to Saudis and UAE and Turkish and Jordanian and others to continue with Syria. Leave the people of Middle east alone, they will find a way to love each other, your falsified democracy is the one that killing them.
Good news, but what’s happening on Gaza Strip?
Just goes to show that we really only have our corrupt and insane 'leaders' to thank for the situation we find ourselves in.
Hope they will reach out to the Palestinians as well.
They know that the Iranian will bite back and with all their teeth.
En fin! Bravo! I hope the people will be more intelligent as the leaders! Waitting for much more then hundreds!…
actions speak louder than words. They should apologize to iranians on behalf of their elected government which calls iranians anti-semites and compares them to the nazis. If i were an iranian, even an anti regime iranian. I would be offended by these lies and provocations.
also, a few hundred people do not speak for the other 5 million racist zionists who applaud their governments hard work in exterminating the palestinians and creating a purified jewish state on stolen land..
I would like to see them demonstrate against that first
Say No to War !
Don't do it for us, do it for the cats !
srsly !
There's lots to demonstrate about…good work in Israel for the demo effort against war…