The Peace Now movement began a week-long “war reckoning march ” from Rosh Hanikra on the Lebanese border to Tel Aviv to protest the government’s policies in Lebanon.
The march is timed to end next Saturday evening with a mass peace rally in Tel Aviv’s municipal square. At each stage, speakers will call on the government to resign because of what the protestors say are the many errors it made during the protracted war in Lebanon.
Meanwhile, Abie Nathan’s “Peace Ship” marked the 10th anniversary Saturday of the beginning of its daily peace broadcasts from an anchorage several miles off the Tel Aviv beach. The broadcasts consist mainly of popular music interspersed with peace slogans and calls for an end to the Israel-Arab conflict.
Nathan, a one-time pilot and restaurant owner in Tel Aviv, sold off his property 10 years ago to buy and operate the vessel which has become a floating radio station. It remains unlicensed by the Israel Broadcast Authority and to that extent it is technically a “pirate radio. ” But no measures have been taken to silence the broadcasts. They are apparently popular because the radio is now accepting paid commercial advertisements. According to Nathan, all profits are donated to worthy causes in Israel and elsewhere.
Recent donations include funds for war victims in Lebanon and a $5,000 gift to people in the Houston, Texas area who lost their homes in the recent tornados.
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