Lester Golden
1 min readJan 1, 2024

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35 years ago David Pryce-Jones explained the source: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781566638265/The-Closed-Circle-An-Interpretation-of-the-Arabs

So did Bernard Lewis in What Went Wrong: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGQVnK9Ztjk&t=4s

And so did I: https://ljgolden55.medium.com/an-ill-fitting-suit-islam-vs-secular-government-and-individualism-3dcf0e577468

The only cure is root and branch transformation, as the US did with Japan and Germany, and failed to do with its own southern confederates: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/lost-causes-and-their-lying-losers-americas-south-and-japan-c6dc560bff4a

Former Knesset MP and Georgetown prof Dr. Einat Wilf cites John Dower's Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII to show the long road to do what's necessary: eradicate the dream of from the river to the sea just as the US eradicated Japanese Bushido. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ku4cE_e4U&t=24s

Since war is politics fought by other means, victory doesn't happen until the victor kills the idea that drove the enemy to war. The nightmare will end only when the idea of Palestine as Islamic waqf is killed by democratization, gender equality, secularization and at least the partial dismantling of the authoritarian collectivist patriarchal social pyramid that governs Arab life.

A sci-fi speculation on this: https://medium.com/illumination-curated/israel-drives-itself-into-the-sea-palestine-from-the-river-to-the-sea-now-a-reality-6c7761ca60ca

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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