Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had determined that Israel had broken the law.
That 36 million is a global figure. And yes, by 2005, two years after it started, public opinion had turned against it.
Here’s an except from that article with some specific events noted:
On September 12, 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush spoke to the United Nations General Assembly. Outside the United Nations building, over 1,000 people attended a protest organized by Voter March and No Blood for Oil.
On September 24, Tony Blair released a document describing Britain’s case for war in Iraq. Three days later, an anti-war rally in London drew a crowd of at least 150,000.[11]
On September 29, roughly 5,000 anti-war protesters converged on Washington, D.C., on the day after an anti-International Monetary Fund protest.[12
Note how much larger the London crowd was than the Washington DC crowd.
That 36 million is a global figure. And yes, by 2005, two years after it started, public opinion had turned against it.
Here’s an except from that article with some specific events noted:
Note how much larger the London crowd was than the Washington DC crowd.