Demonstrations will soon resume and could become more “extreme” than past protests, social protest leader Daphni Leef said today (Thursday) morning in an interview with Galei Tzahal.
“I will always be against violence, but if this government does not pull itself together and work for its citizens, people will understand that they have nothing to lose,” explained Leef. “The government is not even trying to show results or real changes… During the last two weeks we have begun feeling angry and insulted because we are simply not being answered.”
Daphni Leef (second from the right) during a rally in Tel-Aviv, July 2011 (Photo: Al Ittihad)
Leef added “if the problem that brought us out into the streets was the housing crisis, how come the government isn’t offering a single meaningful solution to this? Where is the public housing? Where is the affordable housing? In many different countries in the world, governments have come to the conclusion that they must get involved in the housing market. The Netanyahu government doesn’t offer any solution, only a continuation of the same policies that brought us to the current crisis.”
Leef joined other leaders of the protest movement in calling for the formation of a social budget for 2012. She said that she believes that solutions to the social problems facing Israel can be found in a report compiled by a team of advisers working with the protest movement, a document entitled the “Spivak Report.” The report calls for a new social budget for 2012, with a greater allocation of government spending towards social issues and welfare.
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