(TechCrunch-Washington Post) Roi Carthy - Social protests in Israel began 4 weeks ago with a national outcry over the rising price of basics such as cottage cheese. They then snowballed into a full-blown national movement after a then unknown young woman pitched a tent in Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard in protest of high apartment rental costs. It's been four weeks and zero acts of the barbaric, non-discriminatory violence we've seen across the Middle East, and even in the UK. No shots fired. No stores looted. While in neighboring countries regimes are slaughtering the opposition, in Israel we have complete free speech to criticize our politicians and leaders. The backbone of the movement has unquestionably been Facebook, via pages, and events, and of course Twitter. I wonder how many future civil disobedience movements will be modeled upon Israel, where technology and love trumped violence.
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