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Gadir Hani, council member at All Its Citizens, speaks to the crowd at Caesarea in the Sabath evening protests.
(Credit for filming: Alin Banki)
My name is Gadir Hani, a daughter of the Palestinian people and a citizen of the State of Israel and I tell you there is hope!
There is hope for a common life between Jews and Arabs!
There is hope for the reduction of violence!
There is hope for the return of the hostages!
There is hope for a ceasefire and a regional agreement!
There is hope for a peaceful life!
But in order for the hopes to come true, the one who prevents them, the prime minister, needs to be replaced.
Who could have believed that 10 months after the abandonment of 10/7 we would still continue to demand the departure of the most failed and most dangerous prime minister who has ever been here! It doesn't matter who you blame, the one who destroyed any chance for a different reality is only you Benjamin Netanyahu. You are the head, you are the culprit!
Who believed that a terrible war would break out and claim the lives of tens of thousands of Israeli and Palestinian citizens, which would bring the region into an all-out war. But for you, this isn't interesting - the government has stabilized, the official corruption is working. For whom is it bad? Your government colleagues are asking. For whom is it bad?! For all of us, for all of us, for all of us! There is no citizen in Israel whose life has not been harmed. And you - celebrating a speech in English? Celebrating assassinations? Who does it help? The "base", who is the "base"? Residents of Ashkelon and Kiryat Shmona whose lives have crashed? Families that split up, lost the joy of life, fell into poverty, despair. How do you sleep at night how?
I live in Acre, like my parents, like my grandparents. I love my city, a good company of Jews and Arabs, religious and secular, l love people! But you, always make sure to have conflict, to lie. Before the elections you said - the Arab citizens of Israel are partners. You tried to whisper, carefully, so that Ben Gvir wouldn't get angry, that Smotrich wouldn't threaten! 145 murdered since the beginning of the year, zero action, zero enforcement, zero decision-making. Only to threaten, they are all the "ochrei Israel", only you, and the group of losers around you, and your son creating fights - only you are righteous. Where have we come, where!!!!
Who would have believed that the abandonment continues for 10 months, and 115 hostages are still imprisoned in the horror. There is no person with a heart that does not feel the sorrow of the families! What else will you do to prevent a deal? What did the residents of the kibbutzim and settlements, the Jews and the Bedouins, do to you, that you abandoned them? After you built Hamas, who invaded, murdered, burned, raped, looted and kidnapped - how come you don't do everything to bring them back? You don't have a heart, but from whom did we expect this - from whom??
And a deal is also necessary for the sake of the tens of thousands of innocents in Gaza, whose death in agony breaks the heart of every person who has any humanity left in them. I stand here for those living on the Palestinian side and the Israeli side. quite!
The war must end with a deal now! now! now!
A coalition must be formed that will guarantee a different future for the residents of Gaza and the residents of the Gaza Envelope!
An international agreement for the north must be determined now! now!
I don't believe you are capable, but I beg you: leave! leave! leave!
We will never forget the victims of the war, but we must remember the lives, and for their sake we must not lose the faith that we can live together, like in Acre! Do not lose hope. This is what he wants, and we will never give up! We will not give up!
Hope, hope!