50,000 rally for Israel in Trafalgar Square By Sharon Sadeh Ha'aretz LONDON - In one of the biggest-ever public gatherings organized by British Jewry, some 50,000 people poured into London's Trafalgar Square yesterday afternoon for a pro-Israel rally. Police said some 50,000 people attended the rally, where demonstrators waved Israeli and British flags and carried banners saying "Yes to Peace, No to Terror," and "Suicide bombers kill people and peace." A small pro-Palestinian counter-demonstration, attended by several hundred people, was held nearby. Two people at that rally were arrested for public order offenses. London police put stringent security measures in place, involving thousands of police officers deployed throughout the square and the surrounding streets. Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the rally that Israel should never grant statehood to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, and said if a state were created under his leadership, it would not be friendly and peaceful, but a terrorist state. "We have to debunk the myths created by the totalitarian regime of Arafat," Netanyahu told the cheering crowd. "Arafat must go because he did not turn out to be King Hussein, but Saddam Hussein." British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who noted that the gathering was the largest in the history of British Jewry, said "Israel will not stand alone." The rally was also addressed by former Labor Party minister Peter Mandelson, and Conservative Party deputy leader and shadow foreign minister Michael Ancram. "The peace process in Northern Ireland," Ancram told the crowd, "taught us that peace cannot be imposed." The Bishop of Oxford, Richard Harries, who also spoke at the solidarity gathering, was jeered by some in the crowd when he also expressed sympathy for Palestinian families affected by the conflict. Hundreds of thousands of pounds were collected, mainly from the budgets of the Bonds, the Jewish Agency, and Jewish National Fund, as well as from private contributions, to pay for the logistic and administrative needs of the operation.