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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Israeli left flies flag to urge end to occupation Reuters - Monday, May 17 Send IM Story Print By Alastair Macdonald JERUSALEM - A weekend rally in Jerusalem by Israelis demanding an end to their country's settlement and occupation of the West Bank was hailed by its left-wing sponsors as the start of a major push that could help U.S. peace efforts. But the turnout of just a couple of thousand people drew scorn from settlers, who count on the rightist-led government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resist President Barack Obama's drive for a deal to establish a Palestinian state. "This is a beginning," said one of the rally's organisers, Yariv Oppenheimer of the anti-settlement Peace Now group, promising to step up public campaigning. "It's a good turnout." A crowd of 2,000 or so -- a shadow of the mass peace rallies of the 1990s but an improvement on recent attempts to galvanise support -- waved blue-and-white Israeli flags and placards reading "Zionists Are Not Settlers" on a warm Saturday evening. Speaker after speaker told them they were the true patriots defending a Jewish state which risked disaster if "nationalists" on the right held on to occupied land so that Palestinians under Israel's rule would soon outnumber its 5.5 million Jews. "We want a Jewish state for the Jewish people with clear, recognised borders, not a Jewish state built on settlements and discrimination," said Eldad Yaniv, a founder last year of the National Left, one of several new groups arguing Israel must quit Arab land to remain a democracy with a Jewish majority. Accused of treason and of being "anti-Zionist" by the "national camp" comprising religious settlers and their backers on Israel's right, the National Left's manifesto focuses on establishing its own credentials as defenders of a Zionist state whose founding generation were mostly secular socialists. "These people are getting more aggressive about being Zionist," said David Ricci, a politics professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University who took part in the rally. "It's kind of new: they're saying a Palestinian state is in our interests." SHOWING OBAMA For Anat Maor, a former member of parliament for the small, left-wing Meretz party, the evening showed Israel's "peace camp" was still alive: "It's important to us to show that it's not just outside pressure. It is the voice of the people of Israel." Reflecting scepticism about Netanyahu's good faith in saying he wants a "two-state solution" with the Palestinians, one man held a sign reading: "Barack Obama, Please Force Peace On Us." "I'm here because my country is being taken away from me" by the right, said Zohar Eviatar, a psychology professor at Haifa University, as she waved a blue-and-white flag. Yonat, a 26-year-old youth worker, said as the national anthem concluded the rally on downtown Jaffa Road: "Originally Zionism is a left-wing ideology. The right has taken Zionism in a fascist direction but the flag and anthem are ours." About 500,000 Jews, some citing a Biblical birthright, live in the West Bank and areas in and around East Jerusalem that Israel captured in a 1967 war. Palestinians want to establish a state in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. While opinion polls continue to show mainstream support for a two-state solution outweighs opposition to handing over occupied land, voters deserted left-wing parties in droves after a Palestinian uprising began in 2000. They have yet to recover. The long dominant Labour party of state founder David Ben-Gurion and the late, peacemaking premier Yitzhak Rabin has had just 13 of 120 seats in parliament since the election last year that brought Netanyahu's right-wing Likud back to power. Many on Saturday wore blue T-shirts bearing the faces of Ben-Gurion and Rabin, who was assassinated at a peace rally in 1995 by an Israeli rightist. They heard Achinoam Nini, a singer who also performed on the night Rabin was shot, tell them from the platform: "We must take our fate in our own hands." Netanyahu, pressed by the Obama administration, last year dropped his outright opposition to a Palestinian state. But few analysts believe the conflict is close to resolution, despite a resumption of negotiations this month via U.S. mediators. Settler leader Danny Dayan scoffed: "The total failure of the new, united left movement to bring out more than a handful of demonstrators ... proves once again that the overwhelming majority of Israelis recognise that the Jewish residents of Yesha are true Zionists." With a dose of self-deprecating humour on behalf of the ageing baby-boomers and idealistic youngsters gathered to fly the flag of Israel's left, politics professor Ricci said: "This is group therapy. It's important that people come out and know that there are other people like me and that it's not all over." 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