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

... gross incompetence from everyone from Mayor Ray Nagin to President George W. Bush devastated New Orleans. It was not some sort of freak coincidence that people both in America and the Middle East, as well as elsewhere, looked at images coming out of Ferguson and images coming out of Egypt, the Palestinian Territories of Gaza and the West Bank, and other places in the region and saw significant similarities. The imagers of mass protests turning violent and/or security forces’ violent responses,...