Obama supporters in Israel rally: Only 100 show up
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 7:40 pm
It wasn’t the throng of hundreds of thousands that organizers had hoped for, but the rush-hour crowd did manage to bring some of the spirit of the speech to the square.
Around 100 Israelis on Thursday watched President Barack Obama’s speech in Jerusalem, on a big screen set up in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.
It wasn’t the throng of hundreds of thousands that organizers had hoped for when they set up a wishful-thinking Facebook group over a month ago, but the rush-hour crowd did manage to bring some of the spirit of the speech to the square, long one of the most famous spots in Israel for rallies and demonstrations.
Obama was met with applause when he mentioned the peace process and former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, as well as when he spoke against the “occupation.”
This was, it should be noted, a hometown crowd for Obama – several youngsters in Meretz T-shirts, Tel Aviv types with their bikes, a couple with beers and a hipster mustache or two, as well as a group of Peace Now activists. Most of those in attendance appeared to be a choir waiting to be preached to, by an American president they likely have admired for some time.
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Watching-Obama-at-Rabin-Square-307381
Pathetic.