From today's Ha'aretz:
"It was possibly the largest left-wing demonstration this country has seen for years. Over 100,000 people packed into Tel Aviv's Rabin Square last night to mark the eighth anniversary since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
"It may have been a "memorial ceremony," and Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy and Rabin's former driver, Yehezkel Sharabi, may have been featured speakers, who talked of Rabin's "way," but the banners held up were all political and very specific: Leave the territories - save the country, The Geneva Accord - New Hope, etc. The message was clear - this was the left's demonstration, and not just a memorial service."
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This is in the context of increasing worries that the Likud is on the path of eventual destruction of Israel as a Jewish democracy:
"With settlement-building continuing and peace efforts stalled, Israelis in growing numbers are worrying that a partition may soon become impossible -- and some Palestinians have concluded that a single state for both peoples is in their interest.
""The conflict is not far from the point where it will no longer be possible to carry out a two-state solution," said Yossi Alpher, a leading Israeli political analyst.
"It has become a matter of intense discussion on talk shows and editorial pages, supplying ammunition to Israeli peace campaigners who say a pullout from the West Bank and Gaza should be framed not as a compromise but as a necessity. The alternative, they say, will be an Israel swamped by Arabs, torn between giving them the vote and losing Jewish dominion over the country, or denying them the vote and standing accused of emulating apartheid South Africa."
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