Is this the beginning of an Israeli Spring?
At twilight, Paris Square in central Jerusalem was already packed late last week with more protesters than at the four previous demonstrations that had taken place there in little more than a week against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A long banner hung on the side of a building, bearing a single Hebrew word that means, “We’ve woken up” — describing the protests, or possibly an entire generation of Israelis.
Hundreds of people sat meditating in lotus position, as if to announce, “This is a peaceful protest.” Their ability to focus was astounding. The square, and the avenue leading toward the prime minister’s residence on Balfour Street, was awash in a tsunami of noise. A tall man beat a bass drum he wore on a shoulder brace, while another man, a head shorter, stood on the other side and also flailed it. A woman banged a kitchen pot with a steel spoon. People pounded the metal barricades that the police had dragged in to keep the crowd from Netanyahu’s residence. They blew whistles and plastic horns from under their masks. A man played long riffs on a shofar. Everyone wore masks. The distance between them, though, was two centimeters, not two meters.
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