Phil-
While this is a long time, this process African-Americans was accelerated by socially conscious Jews. Perhaps for Israel, there needs to be an ethnic outsider to help fund civil rights organizations and promote justice, much in the way that Jewish organizations spearheaded and funded the proud movement of Civil rights in this country.

Unfortunately, outside of the problems Israel had with Russian immigrants with false claims of Jewish heritage, there (effectively) is no immigration policy outside of aliyah. This might be a long time from Lincoln to the '60s, but bear in mind that there was a great deal of work facilitating this social change.

Where are the analogous gentile organizations (effective like the NAACP) and people in Israel pushing for Palestinian social justice? It just might take longer than 100 years without that.

Blacks were property in the U.S. and were captured in Africa by Africans, and then sold into the worldwide slave trade. Palestinians were thrown off their lands by Zionist invaders.

The comparison between the post-Civil War treatment of blacks in the U.S. and that of Palestinians by Israel doesn't even work. Blacks were not thrown from their land in the U.S., or made refugees, and the government didn't wage war on them with the full might of the national military or even state militias. Blacks in the U.S. were largely second-class citizens, rather than potential non-citizens.

I don't know if Phil makes the comparisons for a specific reason, but Israel should be dealt with on the basis of what happens in Israel. Why make the situation personal to himself or to other Americans?

Another comprehensive and cogent article on the issue, taking off from the recent events in Akka, by Peter Lagerquist:

"Recipe for a Riot: Parsing Israel’s Yom Kippur Upheavals"
link to merip.org

There never was an Israeli melting pot theory, or even a mosaic theory. The matrix of Israel's laws in fact insures the contrary.

It's declaration of independence is in fact totally disconnected from
its founding description and parallel purpose, and the heavy weight of its implemented law gaggle.

While its motivating founding is understandable (much more so after the Shoah, which obviously the Christian West acknowledged), a safe haven
for world Jewry, it's founding literal fact on the ground was based on the
conceit that ground was one of "a land for our people on a land without people."

The ultimate truth: The West and the Jews decided the Palestinian Arabs didn't count. True this was power politics–with more than a
whiff of racisim by those who castigated it at Nuremberg.