Fascinating history of street protests from a deeply personal perspective. The streets were definitely ours during the First Intifada, when children with stones kept the Israeli army out of our cities. Unfortunately, what you write applies only to the old world. America has long solved the menace of protests. Prompted by the Detroit riots in the 60s, the flight to the suburbs set up a segregated landscape. Today's protests in the big cities speak to empty buildings, the (Israeli-trained) police forces, and the homeless who crowd tent cities in our public squares. That's it. The media doesn't even bother to show up. Meanwhile, life goes on as usual in the suburbs, oblivious of any discontent. Since the pandemic, it's gotten worse. Americans vegetate in their homes, work-from-home and zoom meetings, and are otherwise trapped in their digital devices and entertainment screens, that even protests in the suburbs won't work anymore.