"Palestinian Lives Matter" — Israelis Protest Netanyahu Government And Settler Violence

Oct 18, 2026

Israelis protest in Tel Aviv against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and violence by Israeli settlers targeting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Demonstrators demand accountability, equal rights, political change and an end to the occupation as Israel approaches national elections. Protesters warn that continued violence and government policies threaten democracy and prospects for peace.

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Chapter 1: Protesting for Palestinian rights

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We’re protesting for the Palestinians, for for their right to justice, for their right to to equal rights before

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the law, for their right to have their own state. We’re protesting against the uh the the actions of the uh of the

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settlers and the actions which hurts us most of our uh army that is uh protecting the settlers uh proting the

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settlers. We’re protesting so that the uh that the Palestinians can work their lands, can be uh can uh go to their

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olive gra uh groves, can take their herds wherever they want, can be on their land in peace and safety and

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security and uh and we’re protesting against the occupation. We think it’s a disaster for them and it’s disaster for

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us. There’s no future. We don’t see that there’s a future for us or for them if we won’t be able to have some justice and some peace in the area.

Chapter 2: Criticism of state policies

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We are here this Saturday night as we’ve been here every Saturday night for the last four years to pro to protest the

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policies of this government towards the Palestinian people. They’re conducting

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an program of ethnic cleansing out of the West Bank and of course the war on Gaza. Yesterday we witnessed a

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brutal attack on the Washington Post journalist. Today we witnessed a brutal attack on European diplomats and what I

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would want to tell you that these attacks are nothing out of the ordinary.

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[music] What is out of the ordinary is they attacked so-called VIPs. And this is why it’s in the news every single

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day. These attacks are occurring if it’s against uh the Palestinians themselves, if it’s

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if it’s against peace activists from Israel, and if it’s against peace activists that come from abroad. And we

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are here to say that’s enough. We do not approve and we will do everything in our legal power to prevent that happening.

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a salivator.

Chapter 3: Support for democratic values

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We are here for change. We are supporting the Democrat party and this is the uh uh the movement for quality government uh which is the government

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watchdog organization and we are here in support of liberal democracy checks and balances uh and a government by the

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people for the people without uh um without racism a uh plur plural state.

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Um I grew up in Athens, Georgia. I moved to Israel. I’m here by choice. Um, I grew up in a in a state that was uh

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affected very greatly by racism, by division, by uh horrible things in the horrible past in the history. And I don’t want to see that repeated here.

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Uh, this is a time to rise up and be over that. Uh, a time to create a better society for everybody involved here.

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Chapter 4: Political change and elections

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Hopefully in 10 days we’re going to uh go to a general election which we go to vote against the uh correct government

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and to start to do the changing uh that the Israel it’s really earn uh to

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really earning for and we would like to have a better future here that going to change everything. Otherwise, if the

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current government going to state, we’re going to be um detect

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theocratic detectorship in the Jewish u masochistic way. In that way, uh the uh

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the law according to the Bible will control and not the democratic law is going to control.

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