A rally protesting the political and security policies of Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert brought an estimated 100,000 demonstrators to Jerusalem’s Zion Square Sunday night.
The demonstration, the largest since the government uprooted 25 Jewish communities from Gaza and northern Samaria last August, is taking place under the shadow of last week’s demolition of nine homes in Amona and the brutal police reaction to people who protested the destruction.
Of course a major issue at the rally was the brutality at Amona:
Video footage showing mounted police attacking and beating back demonstrators at Amona was shown on giant video screens during the rally. A video showing MK Effie Eitam (National Union) being trampled and mauled by mounted police was repeatedly shown to counter government claims that Eitam violently engaged the police by throwing rocks at them.
...[Tal] Yahav also demanded that the government investigate the police brutality against the unarmed demonstrators.
“This violence was deliberately directed against us,” she said. “We never dreamed that Jews in this country would beat other Jews without mercy with horses and truncheons.”
56 pictures of the rally can be found here at Jacob Richman's web site.
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