The Israeli Summer has turned into the American Autumn and while some of the issues being addressed by the demonstrators might be different (unemployment in the United States versus the high cost of living in Israel), there is a strong thread running through these movements, and it has to do with government being accountable to the people and not corporations and the richest 1%. The demonstrators on the East Coast and Middle East want to ensure that, as Abraham Lincoln so eloquently stated in his Gettysburg Address, "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Click here for a link to photos I took last weekend of the Occupy D.C. demonstration (before the tents were pitched).
And here are photos I snapped this past summer of the demonstrations around Israel.
TEL AVIV
BEERSHEBA
MITZPE RAMON
JERUSALEM
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