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Comment and Opinion

Yair Lapid – 05/09/2011

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“The new people came out yesterday to say: ‘No more.’

Some eight weeks ago, I wrote here: ‘This is the slaves’ most prominent trait – they’re invisible. Our regime, while it trades secret handshakes under the table with representatives of the tycoons and of various interest groups, doesn’t remember that the slaves exist most of the time.’

Eight weeks later, this is over. The new people who came out to State Square Saturday night are no longer invisible. They came to say that they are unhappy, that it cannot go on like this, and that all the attempts to make them disappear again won’t work.

The argument over whether this protest is political or not is needless; it is being conducted by the people of yesterday simply because they don’t know how to speak any other language. After all, it’s clear that the protest is political.”

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