The Ferguson Intifada, or Why African-Americans are America’s Palestinians

... Israelis, this might seem incomprehensible. What could African-Americans and Palestinians have in common with each other? Well, despite all the differences, quite a lot actually. America in particular can very much look at the situation in Israel/Palestine as a cautionary tale. And the sad reality of all of this is that this whole incident of young Michael Brown being killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, and its aftermath is but one single brick in a Berlin Wall of America’s racial divide, separating not East and West Berlin, but most American whites from most American blacks and many other people of color. Or, if you will,...