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(IsraelNN.com) Several thousand people attended a rally on Sunday night in protest of a meeting between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, United State Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Quartet Envoy Tony Blair.  Protestors met across from the US Consulate and marched to the King David Hotel, where the meeting was taking place.  Many carried signs saying, “The Olmert-Abu Bluff Agreement will Blow Up in Our Faces.”

MK Yuval Steinitz (Likud) spoke at the rally, saying, “Ehud [Olmert], Ehud [Barak], and Tzipi [Livni] are deceiving an entire people and leading all of us to the Annapolis trap while ignoring the facts on the ground.”  Steinitz derided plans to divide Jerusalem between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, saying that such plans “would bring bloody riots in the Old City in place of peace.”

MK Uri Ariel (NU/NRP) was present at the rally, and told reporters “We’re telling Olmert: Stop selling the land of Israel, do not divide Jerusalem, do not even think of destroying Jewish towns, the land of Israel belongs to us, to the people of Israel.  You have no mandate for this.”