The new consensus was best symbolized by the massive popular protests that erupted two months later, bringing together young, economically frustrated, mainly middle-class Israelis who might once have been politically divided by their allegiance to either the center-left Labor party or Netanyahu’s Likud. No mention was made, then or now, of the need for peace initiatives; of the state of mind of the now-invisible (to Israeli eyes) Palestinians, now relegated to their side of the security wall; or of the growing inequalities that separate Israel’s Arab citizens from their Jewish counterparts.
两个月后爆发的大规模民众抗议是新共识的最好体现，之前效忠于中左劳动党或内塔尼亚胡利库德集团的经济窘迫且政治观点相左的以色列中产阶级年轻人因此聚拢到新共识的旗帜下。无论当时还是现在都没有涉及和平计划的必要性；（以色列人同样视而不见的）还有安全墙一侧巴勒斯坦人的精神状态；以及将以色列的阿拉伯与犹太民众隔开的愈演愈烈的不平等状况。