https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2011/08/16/israels-economic-protests-are-the-best-news-ever/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:18:07 -0400<![CDATA[The Arab media, the BBC, and a host of other voices unfriendly to Israel compare the cottage-cheese-and-rent protests on Rothschild Boulevard to the &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221; (which I characterized from the outset as a harbinger of societal collapse). It does not seem to occur to the punditeska that Israel has never had a national political fight over economic history, for an obvious reason: Israelis were too worried about security issues to bother about the price of cheese. Never mind that Israel, one of the world&#8217;s most successful economies, has little in common with its neighbors, whose problem is that Chinese pigs will be fed before Arab peasants. The fact that the Israeli left has chosen to take a stand on economic issues shows that the national-security consensus around Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu is impregnable.]]>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:53:05 -0400<![CDATA[David P. Goldman]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-p-goldman/2011/08/16/israels-economic-protests-are-the-best-news-ever-n130451