Demonstrator Yitzhak Liebowitz accused the government of abandoning Zionism and caving in to dictates from the United States.

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Liebowitz emphasizes that because these ratings agencies were protected from free market competition, and so granted a government favored status by regulation, they naturally did not want to create controversial political waves by rocking the subprime mortgage boat, which would endanger their regulation protected profits.

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