report from DC

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 22 17:36:02 PDT 2002


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>>"It's not about accuracy. It's about politics. It's not about
>>counting," said ANSWER's Tony Murphy. "It's us vs. them. [The
>>pro-Israeli] demonstrators had 100,000 here last week."
>
>What I want to know is (1) whether the pro-Israel demo really
>attracted 100,000; and (2) whether it was larger than A20, as NYT,
>etc. claim.

Lots of people we talked with in DC over the weekend said the 100,000 claim was wildly exaggerated. And I believe our own Chuck0 confirmed this.

Doug



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