One of the sections read in the Passover Haggadah is “Doyenu,” which can be translated as “we are content” or “we had enough.” The Peace Now movement took the second meaning yesterday in attempting to form a “Dayenu Chain” from Halfa to the Presidential residence in Jerusalem calling for Premier Menachem Begin’s resignation.
Several thousand persons lined the 100-mile route from Haifa to Jerusalem carrying such signs as “Begin, Go to the President to offer his designation), “We have had enough of you,” and “Don’t Miss the Peace.”
Peace Now leaders issued a statement charging that Begin was following a policy that would lead to “perpetual war.” But some Likud leaders said the demonstration was a threat to democracy. They said a government resigns because it loses a vote in the Knesset not because of demonstrators along a highway.
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