The first lady, who was encouraged to visit Israel by her husband, was greeted by about 20 protesters as she walked along the huge plaza before entering the Dome of the Rock, one of the Muslim world’s holiest shrines.
As noted, “wow, 20 protestors!”. One wonders how many of them were paid by the news organizations doing the reports. And of course, this is big news, deserving the headline “Protesters overshadow Laura Bush’s Mideast tour”. Insert “the New York Times’ view of” and it would be accurate.
France and the Netherlands should re-run their referendums to obtain the “right answer” if their voters reject Europe’s constitutional treaty in imminent national ballots, Jean-Claude Juncker, the holder of the EU presidency, said on Wednesday.
So the whole referendum thing is more of an instructional than electoral nature, designed to teach the peasants their proper place?