Massive Crowd Urges Olmert to Resign

Looks to be just a matter of time. He cannot survive.

Over 100,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on Thursday night for a mass rally against the government, calling on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz to resign.

Bereaved parents were the first to address the crowd.

Osnat Vishinsky, the mother of a soldier who was killed in Gaza, said, “We demand a leadership that is not cut off from the nation and that isn’t led by egos and political calculations.

“I call on the government to look into the eyes of the real losers of this failed war, the bereaved families, and ask us for forgiveness.”

Popular fiction author Meir Shalev said Olmert and Peretz had failed and must go home.

"We do not seek compensation, not even remorse for your sins of lack of judgment, your arrogance. You ran headfirst into battle with the gaiety of fresh recruits, without a plan or an objective. You squandered Israel's power of deterrence, you squandered our chances of bringing back the captives and worst of all – you squandered the lives of soldiers and civilians," he said.

Also at Tel-Chai Nation.

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