Storm Clouds Over Summer of Love
There are now 2,000 (!) tents and various other structures pegged into the former grass along Rothschild Boulevard and (according to a police survey) a total of 3,383 around the country. At this stage of the "revolution", as a stroll down Rothschild clearly revealed, the original "the rent is too damned high" protestors have been augmented , if not outnumbered, by the rest of am yisrael. A partial list includes doctors, psychologists ('Bibi, ask Sarah, what a psychologist earns is chara [shit]' ), social workers, animal rights groups, environmental activists; Ethiopians, immigration seekers, divorced fathers settler "hillop youth", old age pensioners,Communists, Kahanists and Reform Jews who want to separate religion and state. Each has its own compound and conducts earnest seminars on the synthetic rush mats that cover the entire area. Some have fully-staffed information desks and cable TV while others are simple tent-and-megaphone jobs. I ...