The Isreali peace campaign, Gush Shalom report the biggest anti-war march of the present war on 5 August, in Tel Aviv, Israel. 10,000 marched in spite of difficulties in movement around Israel and the war hysteria with physical attacks on the marchers. Proportionate to population this is equivalent to a demonstration of 100,000 in the UK.
During the march, the demonstrators shouted (in Hebrew): “Jews and Arabs / refuse to be enemies!” , “We shall not die nor kill / in the service of the USA!”, “Children want to live / in Beirut and Haifa!”, “Peretz, Peretz resign / peace is more important!”, “A million refugees / that’s a war crime!”, “Olmert, Peretz and Ramon / Get out of Lebanon!” The two most popular stickers were Gush Shalom’s “Bring the Soldiers Home” and the Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families’ Forum’s “It will not End Until we Talk!”