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The top of the poster which appeared near the locked schools. (Arutz 7)
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| By Israel Insider staff and partners April 12, 2005 |
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Opponents of the government's expulsion plan for the residents of Gaza and northern Samaria overnight chained shut hundreds of educational institutions in the Tel Aviv area.
Haaretz reported that anti-pullout activists locked the gates of 167 schools, kindergartens and preschools in Tel Aviv, Holon and Ramat Gan early Tuesday morning. But organizers of the protest claimed that 500 schools were locked.
Signs that said (in Hebrew) "Jews don't expel Jews" were hung on the gates of the schools.
Under the headline was a poster, on which was written, in Hebrew, the following declaration:
It's not educational to close schools - true.
But it's very not educational to close forever schools and all educational schools for thousands of children and youths in Gush Katif and northern Shomron!
It's very not educational to raze these schools to the ground and to give them over to the terrorists who bombard them with Kassams and rockets every day!
And it's not at all educational to ignore that which is liable to happen to our brothers and to us, here in this very land!
For this is not the way to educate to responsibility and caring,
this is not the way to teach Judaism and Jewish tradition,
this is not the way to teach love of the nation and the land,
this is not the way to teach true Zionism!
For Sharon's plan of destruction and expulsion is against all Jewish and humanistic values that we teach! It is a danger -- a danger to unity within Israel, to the security of the State of Israel, a danger to the Israel Defense Forces, a danger to the Torah, and a danger to our right to the Land of Israel!
Whoever has a Jewish heart cannot be silent.
Join us in the public struggle, to stop the State and to topple the government.
Sharon is against the people! The people are against Sharon!
(Translation and poster image published by Arutz 7, Israel National News.)
Police and firefighters were called to the schools by security guards and teachers who arrived at the schools and found themselves locked out. The chains were cut and no disruptions in the school day were caused.
Education Minister Limor Livnat demanded that Israel Police Chief Moshe Karadi bring to justice those responsible for chaining the gates. "This is violent lawlessness that cannot be ignored," Livnat said on Israel Radio.
Police have launched an investigation into the incident and expressed determined to find the perpetrators, police spokesman Yossi Avendi said."We don't know who it is, but it is anti-pullout people because they left leaflets behind against the withdrawal," he deduced.
Army Radio reported that the protesters claimed to have chained the gates of 500 educational institutions as part of their "civilian non-violent protest against the dictatorial government, which is working against the principles of the state of Israel and Zionism."
One of the organizers told an Arutz-7 correspondent that "This act of civil disobedience, and those that will follow, are now instead of the road-blockings, which succeeded in having the police allocate large forces to the highways."
"It can't be that Gush Katif and the northern Shomron will be destroyed to the foundations, while those in Tel Aviv feel nothing," another said, Arutz 7 reported.
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