Anti-pullout student protestors in Tel Aviv pin orange ribbons to parked cars
By Israel Insider staff and partners June 12, 2005
450-odd members of the Orange Cell student anti-disengagement group, set out on an overnight mission to get their message out to Israel's secular heartland by placing flyers and orange ribbons on more than 40,000 cars.
The activists gathered in the middle of the night at Rabin Square and began their mission, code named "Orange Tel Aviv".
The flyers said the country is suffering from a dangerous lack of information about the withdrawal. "There is simply a lack of information about a program so critical (to Israel?s future). We all know how the program will be carried out, but no one knows why.
"We have come out to say clearly, 'the king has no clothes.'"
The same group engaged in a hunger strike in front of the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem last month.
Group leaders said their purpose was to shake people out of their apathy, and said the country's "disengagement" from Zionist and Jewish values was more threatening to the country than the physical disengagement from Gaza and the northern West Bank.
Students also plan to set up a Dialogue Tent in Tel Aviv?s Nachalat Binyamin neighborhood, including procession of a "king" wearing only underwear followed by a group of blindfolded marchers.
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