[Perhaps you’ve been too worried about the debt ceiling to notice; or perhaps you’re just a normal human being with better things to do. But a new protest movement has sprung up in Israel sending ripples through society. To me it sounds like a bunch of well-heeled Manhattanites complaining about the high rents on the Upper West Side. If you’re still with me, here are two different perspectives of this development from Israelis who can explain it better than I. df]
Rothschild Boulevard is not Tahrir Square
The Israeli protesters are not the proletariat, they proudly announce that they are the 'middle class.'
-- Moshe Arens, Haaretz, 8/2/2011
The media revolutionaries
Three weeks ago fewer than a hundred protesters set up tents along Tel Aviv’s tony Rothschild Boulevard and demanded lower rents in Tel Aviv – Israel’s highest priced real estate market... And it has all been downhill from there.
--Caroline B. Glick, JPost, 8/1/2011
Dan Friedman
NYC
Thursday 4 August 2011
Can You Say "Astroturf" in Hebrew?..........by Dan Friedman
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