While the "tent city" protests in Israel were supported by the majority of the population and lasted for a few weeks, their ideological failure was spectacular:
- The protesters have never managed to formulate coherent and realistic demands, beyond vague requests for cheaper rent/real estate prices and even more vague "social justice"
- Despite wide support among population, they failed to change in any significant way the support given by the Israelis to various political party. The ruling coalition maintained its support by simply refusing to cave to the silly demands and continuing to propose realistic solutions.
- The protesters failed to form a coherent political movement, apart from jump-starting the political careers of a few leaders.
- They have alienated many observers in Israel and around the World by marching with portraits of mass-murderer Che Guevara, as well as by carrying red flags (Russian Israelis, most notably, could not bring themselves to protest alongside a red flag)
- The p;rotesters's naivete perhaps culminated in renaming the Rothschild boulevard into Tahrir square. This showed the protester's inability to distinguish between what happened earlier this year in Egypt and the protests in Israel: Anti-Mubarak protesters in Tahrir square fought for for basic rights, risking their lives during this fight. The well-off middle-class Israelis in the Rothschild demanded even better life, and used their right to p[rotest, guaranteed by the Israel's democratic system.
Yet, renaming Rothschild into Rothschild-Tahrir demonstrates even greater irony in the "tent city" protesters's quest against the rich and for "social justice": Rothschild was a very rich man who contributed greatly by his fortune and political influence to help the Jewish people and to build the Jewish state. The Tahrir protesters have recently showed that the one thing that is more important for them than "social justice" is... their hatred for Israel.
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