Back in ’72, after a trip to Big Sur, California, I stopped off in Yuma, Arizona, on the way back to Detroit with an Israeli officer IDF friend. She commented that it reminded her of some of the Territories.
Better times...'72
When I asked what she meant, she replied, “These Indians and Mexicans are like the Palestinians, pretty poor and beat-down, with the Western Israelis as lords of the land, which they never let them forget.” An interesting and prescient observation.
In the post-civil war yrs of the 1860s and ‘70s, the Army of the Union soon abandoned the South, which enacted criminalizing Black Codes against the newly freed slaves, disenfranchising them from the political process, and created Jim Crow segregation and dehumanization laws that lasted for another 100 yrs. more…
