Posted on 12/31/2025 7:09:23 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Thousands of protesters are expected to take to the streets in the nation’s largest cities on Saturday night amid a series of damning reports about Qatar’s ties with aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The focus on Qatar, a key backer of Hamas, came after the publication this week of reports and interviews that appeared to tie Netanyahu to the so-called Bild and Qatargate probes in which his top aides have either been prime suspects or indicted. Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called Qatargate “the most serious act of treason in Israeli history.”
The anti-government rallies are backed by a range of activist groups that are also protesting the Netanyahu government’s bids to weaken the judiciary, codify the Haredi exemption from military service and avoid a state commission of inquiry into failures surrounding the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023.
Protesters in Jerusalem will march from Netanyahu’s residence to President Isaac Herzog’s residence, while protesters in Haifa will gather at the central Horev area, where Ayala Metzger, daughter-in-law of slain hostage Yoram Metzger, is expected to speak.
“We’re not taking our foot off the gas,” Haifa protest organizers wrote on X, demanding new elections…
Protesters in Tel Aviv will gather at Habima Square and march to the Savidor train station. Set to speak at Habima is Merav Svirsky, whose parents were murdered in Kibbutz Be’eri during the October 7 attack and whose brother Itay was killed in captivity in Gaza.
Former police chief Roni Alsheich is also scheduled to speak. He has accused Netanyahu of insisting Qatar serve as a mediator in the war in Gaza, and of pulling Qatar out of international isolation nearly a decade ago by letting it send millions of dollars in cash to Gaza each month before the October 7 attack that sparked the war.
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So Israeli leftists pick up their next axe to grind against the hated Conservative Netanyahu.
The hostages are home, so they moved on right fast.
In May of 2024, I was invited to Shabbat in the home of a friend of a friend between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
The family was clearly on the Left, so I avoided politics.
But they were sure to impress on me the fact that they had been in the street weekly protesting with their visceral hatred against Netanyahu for 2 YEARS.
That’s 18 months before October 7th.
The Left has always and will always oppose the majority of Israeli Conservatives who have permanently out bred them.
I saw the same thing when I was in Israel in ‘98.
They wanted Bibi OUT and would invent anything to make it happen.
Got a survey call soon after they replaced Bibi trying to get me to admit this was going to change the middle east.
When I told them it wasn’t going to make a difference, they hung up.
Netanyahu needs to have his soldiers take out a few of these groups of muzzie rioters. Send them back home to watch TV.
George Soros and his son are a cancer on civilization.
The Haredi draft protesters were among the largest turnout both in rallies within Israel AND at the consulate in NYC. They are super-Orthodox Jews, hardly Muslim…
The Family Forum are leftists now?
Hold thy tongue, serpent!
The only thing more disgusting than the American left
are the Israeli lefties.
God have mercy on
and God bless Israel and remove the evil from their eyes
Godd news is that Messiah is coming real soon and the nations will be blessed from the Throne in Jerusalem Israel for 1000 years !
Maranatha !!!
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