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Tomorrow Demo in Tel Aviv to Say: Netanyahu, Barak Implementing Anti-peace Agenda

TEL AVIV, February 19, 2010 (WAFA)- Tomorrow night hundreds of Peace Now activists will converge in Tel Aviv to make an important statement: Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak may talk a lot about peace, but -- when it comes to actions -- they are implementing an anti-peace agenda.

The clearest example of the gap between their rhetoric and their actions is on settlements. On Monday Peace Now revealed that construction violating the terms of the settlements freeze is ongoing in more than a quarter of West Bank settlements.

Peace Now, Israel Secretary General Yariv Oppenheimer said: My fellow Israelis increasingly understand that our government is leading us away from peace and towards war. This demonstration is the start of a Peace Now campaign to galvanize the public. We will deliver a message to our leaders that if they fail to make real strides towards peace, then they will face an angry electorate.

To reinforce the message that Netanyahu and Barak are not as pro-peace as they claim to be -- and in honor of the upcoming Purim holiday -- the demonstrators tomorrow will wear masks of either Netanyahu or Barak. Here's a picture of the masks that we took in our Tel Aviv office yesterday:

 Peace Now is the meeting place for the entire Israeli peace camp, regardless of partisan affiliation. And while we're still working on the details of tomorrow night's program, we already know that a number of Knesset members will join us. We'll also be joined by one of Israel's most popular hip-hop groups who will perform in both Hebrew and Arabic.

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