The article Poll: Vast majority of Israelis would accept U.N. recognizing Palestine begins with the following:

Nearly 70 percent of Israelis surveyed recently said that Israel should accept a Palestinian state if the United Nations chooses to recognize it, according to a report in Thursday’s edition of The Jerusalem Post.

Contrary to the previous post, Obama U.N. speech sparks angry Palestinian protests, perhaps this one is a surprise to readers of this blog.

According to the Claude Shannon theory of information, this post with the surprise in it carries much more information than the one that is no surprise.  I am in the process of reading the book The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick where he explains Claude Shannon’s theories.