Monday, June 06, 2011

Did You Know The Left Numbers Game?

Saturday night was a demo and rally in Tel Aviv.  They demanded a Pal. state on the 1967 borders.

Isn't it amazing that after all the hype in the media, all the talk about the Bibi-Barack confrontation, the effect of J Street, etc., all that could come to such an "important" demo was about 5000 people, - in Tel Aviv, the heart of secular, left/liberal Israel?  I mean, there are supposed to be a lot of people supporting such a position, no?


Could it be they are not truly representative of the democratic choice of Israelis not to surrender their security, their homeland?

Moreover, how many Israelis really do form the hardcore that gets rammified into a "majority of Israelis" as the media would want you to believe?

Well, in 2003, there were but 3000 demonstrators for a left wing issue.
And the same number in 2010.
And there were also 3000 in 2008.
And I found 3000 in 2011, oops, sorry, those were 3000 Jordanians protesting against Israel.


But gettinmmg back to the rally on Saturday night, the JPost has it at 5000 and Ynet had 25,000 (!).

Could that be a problem of reporters?

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